Lerista ingrami, also known commonly as the McIvor River slider, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Queensland in Australia.
Etymology
The specific name, ingrami, is in honor of Australian herpetologist .
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat of L. ingrami is coastal sand dunes.
Description
For its genus, L. ingrami is slender, very pale, and very small. Its average snout-to-vent length (SVL) is . It has four digits on each of its four feet. The eyelid is immovable, with a transparent "spectacle".
Behavior
L. ingrami is terrestrial and fossorial.
Reproduction
L. ingrami is oviparous.
References
Further reading
- Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. .
- Covacevich JA, Couper PJ, Roberts L (1997). "New data on Lerista ingrami, a rare skink from southern Cape York Peninsula, Australia". Memmoirs of the Queensland Museum 42 (1): 24.
- Storr GM (1991). "Revision of Lerista orientalis (Lacertilia: Scincidae) of northern Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum 51 (2): 413âÂÂ417. (Lerista ingrami, new species, pp. 416âÂÂ417).
- , (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. .