Pseudemoia rawlinsoni

Pseudemoia rawlinsoni, also known commonly as the glossy grass skink and Rawlinson's window-eyed skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia.

Pseudemoia rawlinsoni

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Pseudemoia
Species:
P. rawlinsoni
Binomial name
Pseudemoia rawlinsoni
(Hutchinson & Donnellan, 1988)
Synonyms[2]
  • Leiolopisma rawlinsoni
    Hutchinson & Donnellan, 1988
  • Pseudemoia rawlinsoni
    — Hutchinson et al., 1990

Etymology

The specific name, rawlinsoni, is in honour of Australian herpetologist Peter Alan Rawlinson (1942–1991).[3]

Geographic range

Native to southeastern Australia, P. rawlinsoni is found in New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria.[1][2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of P. rawlinsoni are grassland and freshwater wetlands.[1]

Reproduction

P. rawlinsoni is viviparous.[2]

gollark: GPUs don't really have dedicated 3D rendering hardware nowadays but just a bunch of parallel processing units.
gollark: I get Render/3D, Blitter, Video and VideoEnhance bars.
gollark: I don't see that.
gollark: Interesting. nvidia-settings doesn't work.
gollark: I use nvidia-settings but I think that comes with the proprietary drivers.

References
  1. Gillespie G, Clemann N, Hutchinson M, Michael D, Melville J, Robertson P, Chapple DG (2018). "Pseudemoia rawlinsoni ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T109480985A109480994. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T109480985A109480994.en. Downloaded on 28 March 2020.
  2. Pseudemoia rawlinsoni at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 September 2019.
  3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Pseudemoia rawlinsoni, p. 218).

Further reading
  • Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
  • Hutchinson MN, Donnellan SC (1988). "A new species of scincid lizard related to Leiolopisma entrecasteauxii, from southeastern Australia". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 112 (4): 143–151. (Leiolopisma rawlinsoni, new species).
  • Hutchinson MN, Donnellan SC, Baverstock PR, Krieg M, Simms S, Burgin S (1990). "Immunological Relationships and Generic Revision of the Australian Lizards Assigned to the Genus Leiolopisma (Scincidae, Lygosominae)". Australian Journal of Zoology 38 (5): 535–554. (Pseudemoia rawlinsoni, new combination).
  • Wilson S, Swan G (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. ISBN 978-1921517280.



This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.