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Carinascincus ocellatus (Ocellated Cool-skink, Ocellated Skink)

Synonyms: Lygosoma hieroglyphicum; Mocoa ocellata (heterotypic); Niveoscincus ocellatus

Wikipedia Abstract

The spotted skink (Niveoscincus ocellatus), sometimes called the ocellated cool-skink or ocellated skink, is a skink endemic to Tasmania, Australia. It is a ground-dwelling, viviparous species, usually found in rocky habitats, and widespread in the northern and eastern parts of the state, as well as in the eastern Bass Strait islands. The N. ocellatus is often found at Arthurs Lake in the Central Highlands of Tasmania.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  9 grams
Female Weight [1]  7 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Saxicolous, Terrestrial
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  1
Reproductive Mode [2]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.15 inches (8 cm)

Ecoregions

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

Prey / Diet

Leptecophylla parvifolia (coast beard-heath)[3]
Styphelia humifusa (Cranberry Heath)[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Neophema chrysostoma (Blue-winged Parrot)1
Pseudomys higginsi (Long-tailed mouse)1

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
♦ 3Feeding Ecology of the Tasmanian Spotted Skink, Niveoscincus ocellatus (Squamata :Scincidae), Erik Wapstra and Roy Swain, Australian Journal of Zoology, 1996, 44, 205-213
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