Lerista

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Lerista bougainvillii

Lerista is a diverse (~ 90 species) genus of skinks endemic to Australia, commonly known as sliders.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Description

The genus is especially notable for the variation in the amount of limb reduction.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The variation ranges from short-bodied forms with large legs bearing five toes, to elongate forms completely lacking legs. The body length of the lizards is Template:Convert. Their locomotion is linked to their body shape. The shorter skinks with prominent limbs travel on the surface; the longer skinks with reduced legs tend to burrow more. A phylogenetic tree of Lerista, derived from DNA analysis, reveals that limb loss has happened multiple times within this group.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Limb loss has occurred relatively recently, in the past 3.6 million years or so.

Species

The following species are recognized as being valid.<ref>Template:EMBL genus www.reptile-database.org.</ref> Template:Div col

Note: a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Lerista.

• Lerista aericeps Template:Small – desert plain slider
• Lerista alia Template:Small – Bulleringa fine-lined slider
• Lerista allanae Template:Small – Allan's lerista, Allan's skink, greater robust fine-lined slider
• Lerista allochira Template:Small – Cape Range slider
• Lerista ameles Template:Small – limbless fine-lined slider
• Lerista amicorum Template:Small – Fortescue three-toed slider
• Lerista anyara Template:Small – Olkola slider skink
• Lerista apoda Template:Small – Dampier Land limbless slider
• Lerista arenicola Template:Small – bight slider
• Lerista axillaris Template:Small – stripe-sided robust slider
• Lerista baynesi Template:Small – Bayne's slider
• Lerista bipes Template:Small – north-western sandslider
• Lerista borealis Template:Small – inland Kimberley slider
• Lerista bougainvillii Template:Small – Bougainville's skink
• Lerista bunglebungle Template:Small – Bunglebungle robust slider
• Lerista carpentariae Template:Small – Carpentaria fine-lined slider
• Lerista chalybura Template:Small – Pilbara blue-tailed slider
• Lerista chordae Template:Small – lyre-patterned slider
• Lerista christinae Template:Small – bold-striped slider, Christina's lerista
• Lerista cinerea Template:Small – vine-thicket fine-lined slider
• Lerista clara Template:Small – sharp-blazed three-toed slider
• Lerista colliveri Template:Small – nubbinned fine-lined slider
• Lerista connivens Template:Small – blinking broad-blazed slider
• Lerista desertorum Template:Small – Central Deserts robust slider
• Lerista distinguenda Template:Small – south-western orange-tailed slider
• Lerista dorsalis Template:Small – southern slider
• Lerista edwardsae Template:Small – Myall slider
• Lerista elegans Template:Small – elegant slider
• Lerista elongata Template:Small – wide-striped mulch slider
• Lerista emmotti Template:Small – Noonbah robust slider
• Lerista eupoda Template:Small – Meekatharra slider
• Lerista flammicauda Template:Small – Pilbara flame-tailed slider
• Lerista fragilis Template:Small – eastern mulch-slider
• Lerista frosti Template:Small – centralian slider
• Lerista gascoynensis Template:Small – Gascoyne broad-blazed slider
• Lerista gerrardii Template:Small – bold-striped robust slider
• Lerista greeri Template:Small – south-eastern Kimberley sandslider
• Lerista griffini Template:Small – stout sandslider
• Lerista haroldi Template:Small – Gnaraloo mulch-slider
• Lerista hobsoni Template:Small
• Lerista humphriesi Template:Small – taper-tailed west-coast slider
• Lerista ingrami Template:Small – McIvor River slider
• Lerista ips Template:Small – robust duneslider
• Lerista jacksoni Template:Small – Jackson's three-toed slider, Jackson's slider
• Lerista kalumburu Template:Small – Kalumburu slider
• Lerista karlschmidti Template:Small – lesser robust fine-lined slider
• Lerista kendricki Template:Small – dark broad-blazed slider
• Lerista kennedyensis Template:Small – Kennedy Range broad-blazed slider
• Lerista kingi Template:Small – King's three-toed slider, King's slider
• Lerista labialis Template:Small – southern sandslider
• Lerista lineata Template:Small – Perth slider
• Lerista lineopunctulata Template:Small – dotted-line robust slider, West Coast line-spotted lerista
• Lerista macropisthopus Template:Small – unpatterned robust slider
• Lerista micra Template:Small – micro three-toed slider, little slider
• Lerista microtis Template:Small – south-western slider
• Lerista miopus Template:Small
• Lerista muelleri Template:Small – wood mulch-slider, Mueller's three-toed lerista
• Lerista neander Template:Small – Pilbara robust slider
• Lerista nevinae Template:Small – Nevin's three-toed slider, Nevin's slider
• Lerista nichollsi Template:Small – inland broad-blazed slider
• Lerista occulta Template:Small – hidden three-toed slider, Carnarvon slider
• Lerista onsloviana Template:Small – Onslow broad-blazed slider
• Lerista orientalis Template:Small – north-eastern orange-tailed slider
• Lerista parameles Template:Small – Chillagoe fine-lined slider
• Lerista petersoni Template:Small – pale broad-blazed slider
• Lerista picturata Template:Small – southern robust slider
• Lerista planiventralis Template:Small – keeled slider
• Lerista praefrontalis Template:Small – Yampi sandslider
• Lerista praepedita Template:Small – western worm lerista, blunt-tailed west-coast slider
• Lerista punctatovittata Template:Small – eastern robust slider
• Lerista puncticauda Template:Small – dotty-tailed robust slider
• Lerista quadrivincula Template:Small – four-chained slider
• Lerista robusta Template:Small – brad-eyed sandslider
• Lerista rochfordensis Template:Small – Rochford slider
• Lerista rolfei Template:Small – Rolfe's three-toed slider, Rolfe's slider
• Lerista separanda Template:Small – Dampierland plain slider
• Lerista simillima Template:Small – Fitzroy sandslider
• Lerista speciosa Template:Small – pale-striped mulch-slider
• Lerista stictopleura Template:Small – spotted broad-blazed slider
• Lerista storri Template:Small – Mount Surprise slider, Storr's lerista
• Lerista stylis Template:Small – Arnhem Coast fine-lined slider
• Lerista taeniata Template:Small – ribbon slider, ribbon lerista
• Lerista terdigitata Template:Small - robust mulch-slider
• Lerista timida Template:Small – dwarf three-toed slider, wood mulch-slider
• Lerista tridactyla Template:Small – dark-backed mulch-slider
• Lerista uniduo Template:Small – slender broad-blazed slider
• Lerista vanderduysi Template:Small – leaden-bellied fine-lined slider
• Lerista varia Template:Small – Shark Bay broad-blazed slider
• Lerista verhmens Template:Small – powerful three-toed slider
• Lerista vermicularis Template:Small – slender duneslider
• Lerista viduata Template:Small – Ravensthorpe Range slider
• Lerista vittata Template:Small – Mount Cooper striped lerista, side-striped fine-lined slider
• Lerista walkeri Template:Small – coastal Kimberley slider
• Lerista wilkinsi Template:Small – two-toed fine-lined slider
• Lerista xanthura Template:Small – yellow-tailed plain slider
• Lerista yuna Template:Small – Yuna broad-blazed slider
• Lerista zonulata Template:Small – north-eastern orange-tailed slider

Further reading

• Bell, Thomas (1833). "Characters of two New Genera of Reptiles". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1833 (1): 98–99. (Lerista, new genus, p. 99).

External links

• Herpetology - Limb reduction in Australian lizards