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List Of Reptiles Of The Recherche Archipelago
The Recherche Archipelago, a large island group off the southern coast of Western Australia, is recognised as containing 22 terrestrial reptile species. This is a list of reptiles of the Recherche Archipelago: References Further reading * {{cite journal , last1=Smith , first1=L. A. , last2=Johnstone , first2=R. E. , name-list-style=amp , year=1996 , title=Biogeography of the herpetofauna of the Recherché Archipelago, Western Australia , journal= Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia , volume=79 , pages=165–173 Recherche Archipelago Reptiles of the Recherche Archipelago Reptiles Reptiles, as most commonly defined are the animals in the Class (biology), class Reptilia ( ), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all sauropsid, sauropsids except birds. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, Squamata, squamates (lizar ... Recherche Archipelago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recherche Archipelago
The Archipelago of the Recherche, known locally as the Bay of Isles, is a group of 105 islands, and over 1200 "obstacles to shipping", off the south coast of Western Australia. The islands stretch from east to west and to off-shore encompassing an area of approximately . The western group is near Esperance and the eastern group at Israelite Bay. They are located in coastal waters, part of which is designated the Recherche Archipelago Nature Reserve. History Pre-European Recherche Archipelago exhibits evidence of human occupation dated to 13,000 years ago. Archeologists have found ancient artefacts on Salisbury Island, a massive limestone remnant sitting on a granite dome offshore, that included stone blades, lizard traps, axe heads, grinding stones and granite watering holes. The objects are believed to extend up to 13,000 years before present, from a time of lower sea levels when many of the islands were joined to the mainland. European discovery and naming The island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egernia Napoleonis
The southwestern crevice-skink (''Egernia napoleonis'') is a species of large skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is native to western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th .... References {{Taxonbar, from=Q3049147 Skinks of Australia Egernia Reptiles described in 1838 Taxa named by John Edward Gray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reptiles Of Western Australia
Reptiles, as most commonly defined are the animals in the class Reptilia ( ), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all sauropsids except birds. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, squamates (lizards and snakes) and rhynchocephalians (tuatara). As of March 2022, the Reptile Database includes about 11,700 species. In the traditional Linnaean classification system, birds are considered a separate class to reptiles. However, crocodilians are more closely related to birds than they are to other living reptiles, and so modern cladistic classification systems include birds within Reptilia, redefining the term as a clade. Other cladistic definitions abandon the term reptile altogether in favor of the clade Sauropsida, which refers to all amniotes more closely related to modern reptiles than to mammals. The study of the traditional reptile orders, historically combined with that of modern amphibians, is called herpetology. The earliest known proto-reptiles originated around 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journal Of The Royal Society Of Western Australia
The Royal Society of Western Australia (RSWA) promotes science in Western Australia. The RSWA was founded in 1914. It publishes the ''Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia'', and has awarded the Medal of the Royal Society of Western Australia (also known incorrectly as the Kelvin Medal) on an occasional basis since 1924. Journal The ''Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering scientific research carried out in Western Australia, or on topics related to Western Australia.. It is the official journal of Royal Society of Western Australia and traces its roots to the ''Journal and Proceedings of the Mueller Botanic Society of Western Australia'' published from 1899 to 1903. The Mueller Botanic Society became the West Australian Natural History Society in 1903, and from 1904 to 1909, the journal was published as ''Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society''. In 1909 the society again changed it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudonaja Affinis Tanneri
''Pseudonaja'' is a genus of highly venomous elapid snakes native to Australia. Species of this genus are known commonly as brown snakes and are considered to be some of the most dangerous snakes in the world; even young snakes are capable of delivering a fatal envenomation to a human. Despite its common name, the king brown snake (''Pseudechis australis'') is not a brown snake, but a member of the genus ''Pseudechis'', commonly known as black snakes. Species These species and subspecies are recognized: *''Pseudonaja affinis'' Günther, 1872 — dugite or spotted brown snake **''P. a. affinis'' Günther, 1872 — coastal mainland Western Australia **''P. a. exilis'' Storr, 1989 — mainland Western Australia and Rottnest Island **''P. a. tanneri'' ( Worrell, 1961) — mainland Western Australia, Boxer Island, and other islands *''Pseudonaja aspidorhyncha'' ( F. McCoy, 1879) strap-snouted brown snake — inland eastern Australia *''Pseudonaja guttata'' (Parker, 1926) — speckle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elapognathus Coronatus
The crowned snake (''Elapognathus coronatus'') is a species of venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is endemic to southwestern Western Australia, including the Recherché Archipelago. Its habitat is swamps, coastal woodlands and heaths, and is known to use stick ant nests as shelters. The species feeds mostly on skink Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae, a family in the infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different taxonomic genera, the family Scincidae is one of the most diverse families of lizards. Ski ...s and frogs, and gives birth to three to nine live young. References Elapognathus Reptiles of Western Australia Reptiles described in 1837 {{Elapidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acanthophis Antarcticus
The common death adder (''Acanthophis antarcticus'') is a species of death adder native to Australia. It is one of the most venomous land snakes in Australia and globally. While it remains widespread (unlike related species), it is facing increased threat from the ongoing Australian cane toad invasion. Taxonomy The common death adder was first described in 1802. The Common Death Adder feeds on frogs, lizards and birds and, unlike most Australian venomous snakes that actively search for prey, this snake sits in one place and waits for prey to come to it. Description The common death adder has a broad flattened, triangular head and a thick body with bands of red, brown and black with a grey, cream or pink belly. It can reach a maximum body length of . Death adders possess the longest fangs of any Australian snake. Unlike the common or European adder (''Vipera berus''), the common death adder is a member of the snake family Elapidae, rather than the family Viperidae The Viperi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morelia Spilota Imbricata
''Morelia imbricata'' is a large snake found in southern regions of Western Australia and western South Australia. A member of the python family, it is commonly known as the southwestern carpet python. Taxonomy A member of the Pythonidae, ''M. imbricata'' is closely related to other Australian diamond or carpet pythons (genus ''Morelia''). The abundant and well known genus ''Morelia'' contains six species across Australia. Description It has a total length up to , from snout to vent (SVL). This species has a well defined neck and small scales across the head. Males may be up to in weight, females may be four times heavier when fully grown. Larger individuals have been given as in total length. Several other similar pythons occur in its range. The woma, '' Aspidites ramsayi'', lacks the obvious neck of ''M. spilota imbricata'', and the western Stimson's python, '' Antaresia stimsoni stimsoni'', has a higher number of ventral scales. Habitat The habitat is coastal areas, wood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiliqua Rugosa Rugosa
''Tiliqua rugosa'', most commonly known as the shingleback lizard or bobtail lizard, is a short-tailed, slow-moving species of blue-tongued skink (genus ''Tiliqua'') endemic to Australia. It is commonly known as the shingleback or sleepy lizard. Three of its four recognised subspecies are found in Western Australia, where the ''bobtail'' name is most frequently used. The fourth subspecies, ''T. rugosa asper,'' is the only one native to eastern Australia, where it goes by the common name of the eastern shingleback. Apart from bobtail and shingleback, a variety of other common names are used in different states, including two-headed skink, stumpy-tailed skink, or , pinecone lizard. The Noongar Aboriginal people refer to ''rugosa'' as ''yoorn'' in their language. ''T. rugosa'' has a short, wide, stumpy tail that resembles its head and may serve the purpose of confusing predators. The tail also contains fat reserves, which are drawn upon during brumation in winter, during wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morethia Obscura
The shrubland Morethia skink (''Morethia obscura'') is a species of skink endemic to Australia, of the family Scincidae, found in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria (Australia), Western Australia in Australia. History of nomenclature Prior to 1845, this species of skink had been generally recognised as species ''M. lineoocellatus.'' In 1845, J.E Gray an eminent British zoologist, distinguished the shrubland Morethia skink from the ''M. lineoocellatus'' as it had supranasal scales and renamed it ''M. anomalus''. G.M. Storr described the more commonly known shrubland morethia skink as ''Morethia obscura'' in 1972. In 1972, Storr carried out a study and made observations based on research conducted by M. Smyth in the same year. This separated the new species ''M. obscura'' from ''M. lineoocellata'' using the condition of the supraciliary scales described by Smyth and the presence of supranasal scales as the major diagnostic. Description Skinks are small reptiles th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lerista Microtis Intermedia
''Lerista'' is a diverse (~ 90 species) genus of skinks endemic to Australia, commonly known as sliders. The genus is especially notable for the variation in the amount of limb reduction. 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 . 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. Limb loss has occurred relatively recently, in the past 3.6 million years or so. Species The following species are recognized as being valid. www.reptile-database.org. Note: a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Lerista''. *''Lerista aericeps'' – desert pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lerista Dorsalis
The southern slider (''Lerista dorsalis'') is a species of skink found in South Australia and Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th .... References {{Taxonbar, from=Q3230164 Lerista Reptiles described in 1985 Taxa named by Glen Milton Storr Skinks of Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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