Austroablepharus barrylyoni (Couper, Limpus, McDonald & Amey, 2010)
Lyons grassland striped skink, Lyon's soil-crevice skink, Lyon's snake-eyed skink
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Proablepharus barrylyoni Couper, Limpus, McDonald & Amey, 2010 (protonym)
Conservation Status
Last record: August-September 1981 (Couper et al., 2010:63)
Rediscovered in April 2023 (source)
Distribution
Mt Surprise area, Queensland, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Couper, P.J.; Limpus, C.J.; McDonald, K.R. & Amey, A.P. 2010. A new species of Proablepharus (Scincidae: Lygosominae) from Mt Surprise, north-eastern Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa 2433: 62-68.
Other references:
Chapple, D., Tingley, R., Mitchell, N., Macdonald, S., Keogh, J. S., Cox, N., Bowles, P., Shea, G., & Woinarski, J. (2019). The action plan for Australian lizards and snakes 2017. CSIRO Publishing.
Cogger, Hal G. (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp.
Couper, Patrick J., Hoskin, Conrad J., Potter, Sally, Braggand, Jason G. and Moritz, Craig. (2018). A New Genus to Accommodate Three Skinks Currently Assigned to Proablepharus (Lacertilia: Scincidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 60: 227-231. https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.60.2017.2017-15
Department of the Environment. (2023). Austroablepharus barrylyoni in Species Profile and Threats Database, Department of the Environment, Canberra. Available from: https://www.environment.gov.au/sprat. Accessed Sat, 11 Nov 2023 17:21:15 +1100.
Garnett, Stephen T., Hayward-Brown, Brittany K. et al. (2022). Australia's most imperilled vertebrates. Biological Conservation 270: 109561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109561
Geyle, Hayley M. et al. (2021). Reptiles on the brink: identifying the Australian terrestrial snake and lizard species most at risk of extinction. Pacific Conservation Biology 27: 3-12.
https://doi.org/10.1071/PC20033
Low, Tim and Booth, Carol. (2023). GONE: Australian animals extinct since the 1960s. Invasive Species Council Inc.
Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions.
Wilson, S. and Swan, G. (2010). A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland. 558 pp.
https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Austroablepharus&species=barrylyoni