Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Scincidae > Eulamprus > Eulamprus tympanumEulamprus tympanum (Cool-temperate Water-skink, Highland Water Skink)Synonyms: Lygosoma tympanum; Lygosoma tympanum lonnberg; Sphenomorphus tympanum The southern water skink (Eulamprus tympanum) is a medium-sized (maximum snout-vent length c. 100 mm) species of skink that is endemic to Australia. These skinks are found in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria as well as on Tasmania's Rodondo Island in the Bass Strait. They are viviparous, mating in spring, and giving birth to live young in mid to late summer. |
| Adult Weight [1] | 17.2 grams | | Female Weight [2] | 17 grams |  | | Habitat Substrate [3] | Arboreal, Terrestrial | | | Litter Size [2] | 3 | | Litters / Year [2] | 1 | | Reproductive Mode [3] | Viviparous | | Snout to Vent Length [2] | 3.543 inches (9 cm) |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226 ♦ 2Nathan 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 ♦ 3Meiri, 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 ♦ 4Ecological 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 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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