Lerista kennedyensis, also known commonly as Kennedy's lerista, the Kennedy Range broad-blazed slider, and the Kennedy Range broad-striped slider, is a species of skink, a lizard in the subfamily Sphenomorphinae of the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Australian state of Western Australia.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Lerista |
| Species: | L. kennedyensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Lerista kennedyensis Kendrick, 1989
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Etymology
editThe specific name, kennedyensis, refers to the Kennedy Range of mountains.[3]
Description
editL. kennedyensis has no front legs, and each small, slender back leg has only two digits.[2]
The flanks are pale orange-brown. The lower eyelid is fused. There is a ventro-lateral keel on each side of the anterior portion of the body. Average snout-to-vent length (SVL) is 5.8 centimetres (2.3 in).[4]
Habitat
editThe preferred natural habitat of L. kennedyensis is sandy desert and shrubland.[1]
Reproduction
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Gaikhorst, G.; Lloyd, R.; Cowan, M.; Shea, G.; Maryan, B. (2017). "Lerista kennedyensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T178197A101745150. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T178197A101745150.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ a b c Lerista kennedyensis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 2015.
- ^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Lerista kennedyensis, p. 139).
- ^ Wilson S, Swan G (2023). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Sixth Edition. Sydney: Reed New Holland Publishers. 688 pp. ISBN 978-1-92554-671-2. (Lerista kennedyensis, pp. 370–371).
Further reading
edit- Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
- Kendrick PG (1989). "Two New Species of Lerista (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from the Cape Range and Kennedy Range of Western Australia". Journal of Herpetology 23 (4): 350–355. (Lerista kennedyensis, new species).
- Storr GM, Smith LA, Johnstone RE (1999). Lizards of Western Australia. I. Skinks, Revised Edition. Perth: Western Australian Museum. 291 pp. ISBN 978-0730726562.