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Phasmasaurus maruia (Maruia Maquis Skink)

Synonyms: Lioscincus maruia

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Phasmasaurus maruia

Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Saxicolous
Reproductive Mode [1]  Oviparous

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
New Caledonia dry forests France Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
New Caledonia rain forests France Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
New Caledonia New Caledonia Yes

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Meiri, 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
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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