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 | |
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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]
References
- 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.
- "Coggeria naufragus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- 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).
External links
- Couper, P.J.; Covacevich, J.A.; Marsterson, S.P.; Shea, G.M. (1996). "Coggeria naufragus gen. et sp. nov., a sand-swimming skink from Fraser Island, Queensland". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 39 (2): 233–241. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
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