Pseudemoia pagenstecheri

Pseudemoia pagenstecheri, also known commonly as the southern grass tussock skink or the southern tussock grass skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia.

Pseudemoia pagenstecheri

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Pseudemoia
Species:
P. pagenstecheri
Binomial name
Pseudemoia pagenstecheri
(Lindholm, 1901)
Synonyms[2]
  • Lygosoma (Liolepisma) pagenstecheri
    Lindholm, 1901
  • Pseudemoia pagenstecheri
    — Hutchinson & Donnellan, 1992

Etymology

The specific name, pagenstecheri, is in honour of German zoologist Heinrich Alexander Pagenstecher.[3]

Geographic range

P. pagenstecheri is found in eastern New South Wales, Tasmania, and northeastern Victoria, Australia.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of P. pagenstecheri is grassland.[1]

Reproduction

P. pagenstecheri is viviparous.[2]

Hybridization

P. pagenstecheri is known to hybridize with two other species in its genus, P. cryodroma and P. entrecasteauxii.[4]

References
  1. Shea G, Wapstra E, Clemann N, Hutchinson M, Robertson P (2018). "Pseudemoia pagenstecheri ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T178623A101750455. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T178623A101750455.en. Downloaded on 28 March 2020.
  2. Pseudemoia pagenstecheri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 September 2019.
  3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Pseudemoia pagenstecheri, p. 199).
  4. Haines ML, Melville J, Sumner J, Clemann N, Chapple DG, Stuart-Fox D (2016). "Geographic variation in hybridization and ecological differentiation between three syntopic, morphologically similar species of montane lizards". Molecular Ecology 25 (12): 2887–2903.

Further reading
  • Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,0333 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
  • Hutchinson MN, Donnellan SC (1992). "Taxonomy and genetic variation in the Australian lizards of the genus Pseudemoia (Scincidae: Lygosominae)". Journal of Natural History 26 (1): 215–264. (Pseudemoia pagenstecheri, new combination).
  • Lindholm WA (1901). "Bemerkungen und Beschreibung einer neuen Eidechsenart ". In: Lampe E (1901). "Catalog der Reptilien-Sammlung (Schildkröten, Crocodile, Eidechsen und Chamaeleons) des Naturhistorischens Museums zu Wiesbaden ". Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 54: 177–222 + Plate III. {Lygosoma (Liolepisma) pagenstecheri, new species, pp. 214–215 + Plate III, figures 3–5}. (in German).
  • Wilson S, Swan G (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. ISBN 978-1921517280.



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