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Eulamprus quoyii (Eastern Water-skink, Eastern Water Skink)

Synonyms: Hinulia gastrosticta; Lygosoma quoyii

Wikipedia Abstract

Eulamprus quoyii, commonly known as the eastern water skink, eastern water-skink, or golden water skink, is a species of diurnal skink, which is endemic to Australia, primarily in the southeast.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  26 grams
Birth Weight [1]  1 grams
Female Weight [1]  25 grams
Male Weight [1]  28 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  12 %
Habitat Substrate [2]  Semi-aquatic
Litter Size [1]  5
Litters / Year [1]  1
Reproductive Mode [2]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.937 inches (10 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Bald Rock National Park II 21998 New South Wales, Australia
Girraween National Park II 28978 Queensland, Australia
Riverland Biosphere Reserve Ia 1490891 South Australia, Australia
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site   Queensland, Australia

Predators

Austrelaps ramsayi (Highlands Copperhead)[3]
Demansia psammophis (Yellow-faced Whipsnake, Yellow-Faced Whip Snake)[4]
Hoplocephalus bungaroides (Broad-headed Snake)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Sphaerechinorhynchus rotundocapitatus[6]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
♦ 3Ecological Ramifications of Prey Size: Food Habits and Reproductive Biology of Australian Copperhead Snakes (Austrelaps, Elaidae), Richard Shine, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 21-28, 1987
♦ 4Ecology of Eastern Australian Whipsnakes of the Genus Demansia, Richard Shine, Journal of Herpetology 14(4):381-389 (1980)
♦ 5Ecological characteristics of a threatened snake species, Hoplocephalus bungaroides (Serpentes, Elapidae), Jonathan K. Webb and Richard Shine, Animal Conservation (1998) 1, 185–193
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0