Eastern mourning skink

Species of lizard

Eastern mourning skink

Conservation status

Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]

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

L. coventryi

Binomial name
Lissolepis coventryi

(Storr, 1978)

Synonyms[2]

* Egernia coventryi
Storr, 1978
* Lissolepis coventryi
— Gardner et al., 2008

The eastern mourning skink (Lissolepis coventryi), also known commonly as Coventry's spinytail skink and the swamp skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia.

## Etymology

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The specific name, coventryi, is in honor of Australian herpetologist Albert John Coventry.[3]

## Geographic range

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L. coventryi is found in the Australian states of South Australia, Victoria, and possibly New South Wales.[2]

## Habitat

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The preferred natural habitat of L. coventryi is freshwater wetlands such as marshes and swamps.[1]

## Description

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L. coventryi has an average snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 8 cm (3.1 in), with a long tail, which is almost one and a half times SVL.[4]

## Reproduction

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L. coventryi is viviparous.[2]

## References

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1. ^ a b Gillespie, G.; Clemann, N.; Robertson, P.; Melville, J.; Michael, D.; Hutchinson, M.; Chapple, D.C. [sic] (2018). "Lissolepis coventryi ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T109480101A109480110.en.
2. ^ a b c Lissolepis coventryi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 1 January 2019.
3. ^ 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. (Egernia coventryi, p. 60).
4. ^ Storr GM (1978).

## Further reading

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* Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
* Storr GM (1978). "The genus Egernia (Lacertilia, Scincidae) in Western Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum 6 (2): 147–187. (Egernia coventryi, new species, pp. 175–177, Plate 1).
* Wilson S, Swan G (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. ISBN 978-1921517280.

Taxon identifiers

Lissolepis coventryi|

* Wikidata: Q3242630
* Wikispecies: Lissolepis coventryi
* ADW: Egernia_coventryi
* AFD: Lissolepis_coventryi
* CoL: 3VFGX
* GBIF: 7936170
* iNaturalist: 38631
* IUCN: 109480101
* NCBI: 1041599
* Open Tree of Life: 123006
* RD: coventryi
* uBio: 191357

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