Pseudemoia pagenstecheri
Pseudemoia pagenstecheri | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Scincidae |
Genus: | Pseudemoia |
Species: | P. pagenstecheri
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Binomial name | |
Pseudemoia pagenstecheri (Lindholm, 1901)
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Synonyms[2] | |
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Pseudemoia pagenstecheri, also known commonly as the southern grass tussock skink or the southern tussock grass skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia.
Etymology[]
The specific name, pagenstecheri, is in honour of German zoologist Heinrich Alexander Pagenstecher.[3]
Geographic range[]
P. pagenstecheri is found in eastern New South Wales, Tasmania, and northeastern Victoria, Australia.[2]
Habitat[]
The preferred natural habitat of P. pagenstecheri is grassland.[1]
Reproduction[]
P. pagenstecheri is viviparous.[2]
Hybridization[]
P. pagenstecheri is known to hybridize with two other species in its genus, P. cryodroma and P. entrecasteauxii.[4]
References[]
- ^ a b Shea, G.; Wapstra, E.; Clemann, N.; Hutchinson, M.; Robertson, P. (2018). "Pseudemoia pagenstecheri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T178623A101750455. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T178623A101750455.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ a b c Pseudemoia pagenstecheri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 September 2019.
- ^ , , (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Pseudemoia pagenstecheri, p. 199).
- ^ , , , Clemann N, , (2016). "Geographic variation in hybridization and ecological differentiation between three syntopic, morphologically similar species of montane lizards". Molecular Ecology 25 (12): 2887–2903.
Further reading[]
- Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,0333 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
- , Donnellan SC (1992). "Taxonomy and genetic variation in the Australian lizards of the genus Pseudemoia (Scincidae: Lygosominae)". Journal of Natural History 26 (1): 215–264. (Pseudemoia pagenstecheri, new combination).
- Lindholm WA (1901). "Bemerkungen und Beschreibung einer neuen Eidechsenart ". In: (1901). "Catalog der Reptilien-Sammlung (Schildkröten, Crocodile, Eidechsen und Chamaeleons) des Naturhistorischens Museums zu Wiesbaden ". Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 54: 177–222 + Plate III. {Lygosoma (Liolepisma) pagenstecheri, new species, pp. 214–215 + Plate III, figures 3–5}. (in German).
- , (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. ISBN 978-1921517280.
Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Pseudemoia
- Reptiles described in 1901
- Skinks of Australia
- Endemic fauna of Australia
- Taxa named by Wassili Adolfovitch Lindholm
- Skink stubs