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Lerista (Skink)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Lerista is a diverse (~ 90 species) genus of skinks endemic to Australia, commonly known as sliders. The genus is especially notable for the variation in the amount of limb reduction. The variation ranges from short-bodied forms with large legs bearing five toes, to elongate forms completely lacking legs. The body length of the lizards is 33–103 millimetres (1.3–4.1 in). Their locomotion is linked to their body shape. The shorter skinks with prominent limbs travel on the surface; the longer skinks with reduced legs tend to burrow more. A phylogenetic tree of Lerista, derived from DNA analysis, reveals that limb loss has happened multiple times within this group. Limb loss has occurred relatively recently, in the past 3.6 million years or so.
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Species

Lerista aericeps (Desert Plain Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista alia
Lerista allanae (Greater Robust Fine-lined Slider) (Critically Endangered) (Attributes)
Lerista allochira (Cape Range Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista ameles (Limbless Fine-lined Slider) (Endangered) (Attributes)
Lerista amicorum (Attributes)
Lerista anyara
Lerista apoda (Dampier Land Limbless Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista arenicola (Bight Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista axillaris (Stripe-sided Robust Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista baynesi (Attributes)
Lerista bipes (North-western Sandslider) (Attributes)
Lerista borealis (Inland Kimberley Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista bougainvillii (South-eastern Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista bunglebungle (Bunglebungle Robust Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista carpentariae (Carpentaria Fine-lined Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista chalybura (Pilbara Blue-tailed Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista chordae (Vulnerable) (Attributes)
Lerista christinae (Bold-striped Slider) (Vulnerable) (Attributes)
Lerista cinerea (Vine-thicket Fine-lined Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista clara (Attributes)
Lerista colliveri (Nubbinned Fine-lined Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista connivens (Blinking Broad-blazed Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista desertorum (Central Deserts Robust Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista distinguenda (South-western Orange-tailed Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista dorsalis (Southern Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista edwardsae (Attributes)
Lerista elegans (Elegant Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista elongata (Wide-striped Mulch Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista emmotti (Noonbah Robust Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista eupoda (Attributes)
Lerista flammicauda (Pilbara Flame-tailed Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista fragilis (Eastern Mulch-slider) (Attributes)
Lerista frosti (Centralian Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista gascoynensis (Gascoyne Broad-blazed Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista gerrardii (Bold-striped Robust Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista greeri (South-eastern Kimberley Sandslider) (Attributes)
Lerista griffini (Stout Sandslider) (Attributes)
Lerista haroldi (Gnaraloo Mulch-slider) (Endangered) (Attributes)
Lerista hobsoni
Lerista humphriesi (Taper-tailed West-coast Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista ingrami (McIvor River Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista ips (Robust Duneslider) (Attributes)
Lerista jacksoni (Attributes)
Lerista kalumburu (Kalumburu Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista karlschmidti (Lesser Robust Fine-lined Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista kendricki (Dark Broad-blazed Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista kennedyensis (Kennedy Range Broad-blazed Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista kingi (Attributes)
Lerista labialis (Southern Sandslider) (Attributes)
Lerista lineata (Perth Slider) (Endangered) (Attributes)
Lerista lineopunctulata (Dotted-line Robust Slider, West Coast Line-spotted Lerista) (Attributes)
Lerista macropisthopus (Unpatterned Robust Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista maculosa (Spotted Broad-blazed Slider)
Lerista micra (Attributes)
Lerista microtis (South-western Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista miopus
Lerista muelleri (Müller's Lerista) (Attributes)
Lerista neander (Pilbara Robust Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista nevinae (Nevin's Slide) (Critically Endangered)
Lerista nichollsi (Inland Broad-blazed Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista occulta (Attributes)
Lerista onsloviana (Onslow Broad-blazed Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista orientalis (North-eastern Orange-tailed Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista parameles
Lerista petersoni (Pale Broad-blazed Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista picturata (Southern Robust Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista planiventralis (Keeled Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista praefrontalis (Yampi Sandslider) (Attributes)
Lerista praepedita (Blunt-tailed West-coast Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista punctatovittata (Spotted Lerista) (Attributes)
Lerista puncticauda (Dotty-tailed Robust Slider) (Endangered) (Attributes)
Lerista quadrivincula (Four-chained Slider)
Lerista robusta (Brad-eyed Sandslider) (Attributes)
Lerista rochfordensis (Rochford Slider) (Vulnerable) (Attributes)
Lerista rolfei (Attributes)
Lerista separanda (Dampierland Plain Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista simillima (Fitzroy Sandslider) (Attributes)
Lerista speciosa (Pale-striped Mulch-slider) (Attributes)
Lerista stictopleura (Spotted Broad-blazed Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista storri (Storr's Lerista) (Attributes)
Lerista stylis (Arnhem Coast Fine-lined Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista taeniata (Ribbon Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista talpina (Phantom Mole Slider)
Lerista terdigitata (Robust Mulch-slider) (Attributes)
Lerista timida
Lerista tridactyla (Dark-backed Mulch-slider) (Attributes)
Lerista uniduo (Slender Broad-blazed Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista vanderduysi
Lerista varia (Shark Bay Broad-blazed Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista verhmens (Attributes)
Lerista vermicularis (Slender Duneslider) (Attributes)
Lerista viduata (Ravensthorpe Range Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista vittata (Side-striped Fine-lined Slider) (Critically Endangered) (Attributes)
Lerista walkeri (Coastal Kimberley Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista wilkinsi (Two-toed Fine-lined Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista xanthura (Yellow-tailed Plain Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista yuna (Yuna Broad-blazed Slider) (Attributes)
Lerista zonulata (North-eastern Orange-tailed Slider) (Attributes)

External References

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