The ornate soil-crevice skink (''Notoscincus ornatus'') is 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 ...
found in
Australia
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Geographic range
The ornate soil-crevice skink (''N. ornatus'') is known to be found from the far north of
Western Australia, the
Northern Territory,
Queensland, to
South Australia. The
subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...
''N. ornatus wotjulum'' is found in the tropical north coast and hinterland, whereas the subspecies ''N. ornatus ornatus'' is generally not.
References
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Notoscincus
Reptiles described in 1896
Taxa named by Robert Broom