Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Scincidae > Pseudemoia > Pseudemoia pagenstecheri

Pseudemoia pagenstecheri (Southern Grass Tussock Skink, Southern Tussock Grass Skink)

Synonyms: Claireascincus jenkinsi; Claireascincus schumacki; Claireascincus wardi; Leiolopisma entrecasteauxii; Lygosoma pagenstecheri

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.5 grams
Female Weight [2]  4 grams
Habitat Substrate [3]  Terrestrial
Reproductive Mode [3]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  2.362 inches (6 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Australian Alps montane grasslands Australia Australasia Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Eastern Australian temperate forests Australia Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Southeast Australia temperate forests Australia Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Range Map

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Meiri, 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