Satinay sand skink

The Satinay sand skink or Fraser Island sand skink (Coggeria naufragus) is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae.

Satinay sand skink

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Coggeria
Couper, Covacevich, Marsterson, & Shea, 1996
Species:
C. naufragus
Binomial name
Coggeria naufragus
Couper, Covacevich, Marsterson, & Shea, 1996

Taxonomy

C. naufragus is the type species of the monotypic genus Coggeria.[2]

Etymology

The generic name, Coggeria, is in honor of Australian herpetologist Harold Cogger.[3]

The specific name, naufragus, means "shipwrecked" or "castaway" in Latin.[2]

Geographic range

C. naufragus is endemic to Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia.[2]

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References
  1. Hobson, R., Shea, G., Wilson, S., Venz, M., Sanderson, C. & Vanderduys, E. 2018. Coggeria naufragus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T102967418A102967426. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T102967418A102967426.en. Downloaded on 05 September 2018.
  2. "Coggeria naufragus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Coggeria, p. 56).


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