Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Scincidae > Carinascincus > Carinascincus microlepidotus

Carinascincus microlepidotus (Boulder Cool-skink, Southern Snow Skink)

Synonyms: Mocoa microlepidota (heterotypic); Niveoscincus microlepidotus

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Carinascincus microlepidotus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  4 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Saxicolous, Terrestrial
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  1
Reproductive Mode [2]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  2.362 inches (6 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Tasmanian Central Highland forests Australia Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Tasmanian temperate rain forests Australia Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 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
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