Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Scincidae > Lerista > Lerista praepeditaLerista praepedita (Blunt-tailed West-coast Slider)Synonyms: Lygosoma praepeditum; Pholeophilus capensis; Soridia lineata The western worm lerista (Lerista praepedita) is a species of skink native to coastal areas of southwest and midwest Western Australia. It is found amongst heath and woodlands on coastal dunes. It is very thin, with no front legs and extremely small, stumpy back legs. It is a pale grey or brown, with a prominent, broad, dark brown stripe along each side, and a series of small brown dashes along its back. |
Habitat Substrate [1] | Fossorial, Terrestrial | | Reproductive Mode [1] | Oviparous |
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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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