Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Scincidae > Hemiergis > Hemiergis talbingoensis

Hemiergis talbingoensis (Three-toed Earless Skink)

Synonyms: Hemiergis decresiensis talbingoensis

Infraspecies

Hemiergis talbingoensis davisi
Hemiergis talbingoensis talbingoensis

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.6 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Fossorial, Terrestrial
Litter Size [3]  3
Litters / Year [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  2 years
Reproductive Mode [2]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [3]  2.362 inches (6 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Flinders Chase National Park II 81245 South Australia, Australia
Kosciuszko National Park II 1705480 New South Wales, Australia

Predators

Austrelaps labialis (Pygmy Copperhead)[4]
Austrelaps ramsayi (Highlands Copperhead)[4]
Suta flagellum (Whip Hooded Snake, Little Whip Snake)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Sphaerechinorhynchus rotundocapitatus[6]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 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
♦ 3Nathan 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
♦ 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
♦ 5Food Habits and Reproductive Biology of Small Australian Snakes of the Genera Unechis and Suta (Elapidae), RICHARD SHINE, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 307-315, 1988
♦ 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
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