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Carinascincus orocryptus (Heath Cool-skink, Mountain Skink)

Synonyms: Leiolopisma orocryptum; Niveoscincus orocryptus

Wikipedia Abstract

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.
View Wikipedia Record: Carinascincus orocryptus

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Carinascincus orocryptus

Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Arboreal, Saxicolous, Terrestrial
Reproductive Mode [1]  Viviparous

Ecoregions

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

External References

Citations

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
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