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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

Missing

Last record: August-September 1981

 

Distribution

Mt Surprise area, Queensland, Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

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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:

Cogger, Hal G. (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp.

Couper, Patrick J.; Conrad J. Hoskin, Sally Potter, Jason G. Braggand Craig Moritz. 2018. A New Genus to Accommodate Three Skinks Currently Assigned to Proablepharus (Lacertilia: Scincidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 60; 227-231.

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

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

 

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