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Morethia boulengeri (South-eastern Morethia Skink)

Synonyms: Ablepharus boulengeri

Wikipedia Abstract

Morethia boulengeri is a species of scincid lizard endemic to Australia, these lizards are found in Australia and nowhere else in the world. Common names for this species include south-eastern Morethia skink, Boulenger's snake-eyed skink, Boulenger's Morethia, and Boulenger's skink. The specific name, boulengeri, as well as two of the common names for this skink, are in honor of George Albert Boulenger, a Belgian-born British herpetologist who described a wide range of reptile, amphibian and fish species.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.5 grams
Female Weight [2]  2 grams
Gestation [2]  59 days
Litter Size [2]  3
Litters / Year [2]  2
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  1.968 inches (5 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Girraween National Park II 28978 Queensland, Australia
Grampians National Park II 416373 Victoria, Australia
Hattah-Kulkyne NP and Murray-Kulkyne Park National Park II 122831 Victoria, Australia
Riverland Biosphere Reserve Ia 1490891 South Australia, Australia
Yathong Nature Reserve Ia 270264 New South Wales, Australia

Predators

Suta dwyeri (Variable Black-naped Snake)[4]
Suta flagellum (Whip Hooded Snake, Little Whip Snake)[4]
Suta suta (Curl Snake, Myal Snake)[4]

Range Map

External References

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
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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