''Egernia gillespieae'' was a
species of
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 ...
, a lizard in the
family Scincidae.
The species was
endemic to
Northern Australia.
[Thorn, Kailah M.; Hutchinson, Mark N.; Archer, Michael; Lee, Michael S. Y. (2019). "A New Scincid Lizard from the Miocene of Northern Australia, and the Evolutionary History of Social Skinks (Scincidae: Erginiinae)". ''Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology'' e1577873. (''Egernia gillespieae'', new species).]
References
Skinks of Australia
Egernia
Endemic fauna of Australia
Reptiles described in 2019
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