Stokes's skink

Stokes's skink (Egernia stokesii) is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. It is also called commonly the gidgee skink, the gidgee spiny-tailed skink, the silubosaure, and Stokes' egernia. The species is endemic to Australia. There are four recognized subspecies.

Stokes's skink

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Egernia
Species:
E. stokesii
Binomial name
Egernia stokesii
(Gray, 1845)
Synonyms[2]
  • Silubosaurus stokesii
    Gray, 1845
  • Silubosaurus zellingi
    De Vis, 1884
  • Egernia stokesii
    — Glauert, 1960

Etymology

The specific name, stokesii, is in honor of Royal Navy Admiral John Lort Stokes.[3]

The subspecific name, zellingi, is in honor of British biological collector Charles Weldon De Burgh Birch, Count Zelling (1821–1894).[4][5]

Geographic range

E. stokesii is found in New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of E. stokesii are rocky areas, grassland, and shrubland.[1]

Reproduction

E. stokesii is viviparous and monogamous.[2]

Subspecies

The following four subspecies are recognized as being valid.[2]

  • Egernia stokesii aethiops Storr, 1978
  • Egernia stokesii badia Storr, 1978
  • Egernia stokesii stokesii (Gray, 1845)
  • Egernia stokesii zellingi (De Vis, 1884)

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Egernia.

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References
  1. Ellis R, How R, Cowan M, Ford [L]S, Teale R (2017). "Egernia stokesii ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T62246A101743684.en.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Egernia stokesii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 1 January 2019.
  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. (Egernia stokesii, p. 255).
  4. De Vis (1884).
  5. Dowe JL (2016). "Charles Weldon (de Burgh) Birch (Count Zelling), an unassuming botanical and zoological collector in central and north-central Queensland". North Queensland Naturalist 46: 16–46.

Further reading
  • Cogger H (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
  • De Vis CW (1884). "On New Australian Lizards". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 1: 53–56. (Silubosaurus zelling, new species, pp. 53–54).
  • Glauert L (1960). "Herpetological miscellanea. XII. The family Scincidae in Western Australia. Pt. 1. The genera Tiliqua, Trachysaurus and Egernia". Western Australian Naturalist 7 (3): 67–77. (Egernia stokesii, new combination).
  • Gray JE (1845). Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxviii + 289 pp. (Silubosaurus stokesii, new species, p. 105).
  • Storr GM (1978). "The genus Egernia (Lacertilia, Scincidae) in Western Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum 6 (2): 147–187. (Egernia stokesii aethiops, new subspecies, pp. 156–157; Egernia stokesii badia, new subspecies, pp. 158–160).
  • Wilson, Steve; Swan, Gerry (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. ISBN 978-1921517280.



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