Arnhem Land Gorges skink

Species of lizard

Arnhem Land Gorges skink

Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Reptilia
Order:  | Squamata
Family:  | Scincidae
Genus:  | Bellatorias
Species:  |

B. obiri

Binomial name
Bellatorias obiri

(Wells & Wellington, 1985)

Synonyms[2]

Egernia arnhemensis Sadlier, 1990
Hortonia obiri, Wells & Wellington, 1985

The Arnhem Land Gorges skink (Bellatorias obiri) is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is native to Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.[2]

The Arnhem Land Gorges skink was first noted to be distinct in 1974 by Harold Cogger, who called it Egernia cf. frerei.[3] Australian herpetologists Richard W. Wells and C. Ross Wellington described Hortonia obiri in 1985 from a specimen in the Northern Territory Museum in Darwin that had been collected 3 km southwest of Gunbalanya (formerly known as Oenpelli) by Brian Jukes on 28 July 1975.[4] Ross Sadlier called it Egernia arnhemensis in 1990.[3]

## References

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1. ^ "Bellatorias obiri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018. 2018. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T47155317A47155335.en.
2. ^ a b Australian Biological Resources Study (20 August 2013). "Species Bellatorias obiri (Wells & Wellington, 1985)". Australian Faunal Directory. Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Australian Government. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
3. ^ a b Sadlier, Ross A (1990). "A new species of scincid lizard from western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory". The Beagle: Occasional Papers of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences. 7 (2): 29–33.
4. ^ Wells, Richard W.; Wellington, C. Ross (1985). "A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia" (PDF). Australian Journal of Herpetology, Supplemental Series. 1: 1–61 [30]. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-19. Retrieved 2018-12-11.

Taxon identifiers

Bellatorias obiri|

* Wikidata: Q727155
* Wikispecies: Bellatorias obiri
* AFD: Bellatorias_obiri
* CoL: 5WGNM
* GBIF: 7876431
* iNaturalist: 38633
* IUCN: 47155317
* Open Tree of Life: 4124113
* RD: obiri
* SPRAT: 83161

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