Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Scincidae > Carinascincus > Carinascincus orocryptusCarinascincus orocryptus (Heath Cool-skink, Mountain Skink)Synonyms: Leiolopisma orocryptum; Niveoscincus orocryptus Niveoscincus orocryptus, the heath cool-skink, mountain skink or Tasmanian mountain skink, is a skink endemic to Tasmania, Australia. It is viviparous and mainly found in alpine areas, though occurring down to sea-level in the south-west of the state. |
Habitat Substrate [1] | Arboreal, Saxicolous, Terrestrial |  | Reproductive Mode [1] | Viviparous |
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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 |
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
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