Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Scincidae > Carinascincus > Carinascincus palfreymaniCarinascincus palfreymani (Pedra Branca Cool-skink, Red-Throated Skink)Synonyms: Niveoscincus palfreymani; Pseudemoia palfreymani Niveoscincus palfreymani, known commonly as Palfreyman's window-eyed skink, the Pedra Branca cool-skink, the Pedra Branca skink, or the red-throated skink, is a species of skink in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia, and is restricted to the windswept Pedra Branca, an island off southern Tasmania of only 2.5 ha (6.2 acres), where it is dependent on the seabird colonies. It is the only lizard species found on the island. |
Habitat Substrate [1] | Fossorial, Terrestrial | | Reproductive Mode [1] | Viviparous |
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Southwest National Park |
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Tasmania, Australia |
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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 ♦ 2The feeding ecology and field energetics of the Pedra Branca skink (Niveoscincus palfreymani), Nigel Brothers, Alan Wiltshire, David Pemberton, Nick Mooney and Brian Green, Wildlife Research, 2003, 30, 8187 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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