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Menetia greyii (Common Dwarf Skink)

Synonyms: Menetia amaura (heterotypic); Menetia microscincus; Menetia reidi

Wikipedia Abstract

Menetia greyii, commonly known as the common dwarf skink, is a species of lizard endemic to mainland Australia.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  .4 grams
Female Weight [2]  1 grams
Gestation [2]  48 days
Litter Size [2]  2
Litters / Year [2]  2
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  1.181 inches (3 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Southwest Australia Australia No

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Citations

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
♦ 4Food 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
♦ 5Comparative ecology of Varanus in the Great Victoria Desert, Eric R. Pianka, Australian Journal of Ecology (1994) 19, 395-408
♦ 6Reproduction and diet in four species of burrowing snakes (Simoselaps spp.) from southwestern Western Australia, N. R. Strahan, R. A. How and J. Dell, Records of the Western Australian Museum 19: 57-63 (1998).
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
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