A new species of scincid lizard, Saproscincus eungellensis, from mid-eastern Queensland

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 559-571

  Sadlier, Ross A ^a   Couper, Patrick J ^b   Colgan, Donald J ^a   Vanderduys, Eric ^c   Rickard, Edwina ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

Author keywords

New species; Queensland; Rainforests; Saproscincus eungellensis; Scincidae

Indexed keywords

HABITAT SELECTION; LIZARD; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EULAMPRUS AMPLUS; PHYLLURUS; REPTILIA; SAPROSCINCUS; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33644689741     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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