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Lerista jacksoni

Lerista jacksoni, also known commonly as Jackson's lerista, Jackson's slider, and Jackson's three-toed slider, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Australian state of Western Australia.

Etymology

The specific name, jacksoni, is in honor of Gregory Jackson who is a layout artist for the Western Australian Museum.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of L. jacksoni is rocky areas.

Description

L. jacksoni has three digits on each of its four feet. It has four supraciliaries, paired frontoparietals, and a fused lower eyelid. It may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of .

Behavior

L. jacksoni is terrestrial and saxicolous.

Reproduction

L. jacksoni is oviparous.

References

Further reading

  • Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. .
  • , (2007). "Revision of the Lerista muelleri species-group (Lacertilia: Scincidae) in Western Australia, with a redescription of L. muelleri (Fischer, 1881) and the description of nine new species". Records of the Western Australian Museum 23: 309–357. (Lerista jacksoni, new species, pp. 324–325, Figure 11).