Black Mountain rainbow-skink

Black Mountain rainbow-skink
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Scincidae
Genus:Liburnascincus
Species: L. scirtetis
Binomial name
Liburnascincus scirtetis
(Ingram & Covacevich, 1980)
Synonyms
  • Carlia scirtetis Ingram & Covacevich, 1980

The Black Mountain rainbow-skink (Liburnascincus scirtetis) is an endemic species that inhabits a total of 6 km2 (2.3 sq mi) on Black Mountain in Queensland, Australia.[2] The species is 70 mm long with a weight between 4 and 6 grams.[2]

References

  1. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/178740/0
  2. 1 2 "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-07-27. Retrieved 2009-03-30.


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