Pseudemoia baudini

Pseudemoia baudini, also known commonly as Baudin's skink, Baudin's window-eyed skink, and the Bight Coast skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia.

Pseudemoia baudini
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Pseudemoia
Species:
P. baudini
Binomial name
Pseudemoia baudini
(Greer, 1982)
Synonyms[2]
  • Leiolopisma baudini
    Greer, 1982
  • Claireascincus baudini
    — Wells & Wellington, 1985
  • Pseudemoia baudini
    — Hutchinson et al., 1990

Etymology

The specific name, baudini, is in honor of French explorer Nicolas Baudin.[3]

Geographic range

P. baudini is found in the Australian states of South Australia and Western Australia.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of P. baudini is shrubland.[1]

Description

P. baudini has paired frontoparietal scales.[2]

Reproduction

P. baudini is viviparous.[2]

References
  1. Shea G, Cogger H (2017). "Pseudemoia baudini ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T178365A101745926. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T178365A101745926.en. Downloaded on 28 March 2020.
  2. Pseudemoia baudini at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 September 2019.
  3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Pseudemoia baudini, p. 19).

Further reading
  • Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
  • Greer AE (1982). "A new species of Leiolopisma (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from Western Australia, with notes on the biology and relationships of other Australian species". Records of the Australian Museum 34 (12): 549–573. (Leiolopisma baudini, new species, pp. 550–557, Figures 1–3).
  • Hutchinson MN, Donnellan SC (1992). "Taxonomy and genetic variation in the Australian lizards of the genus Pseudemoia (Scincidae: Lygosominae)". Journal of Natural History 26 (1): 215–264.
  • Storr GM, Smith LA, Johnstone RE (1999). Lizards of Western Australia. I. Skinks. Revised Edition. Perth: Western Australian Museum. xvi + 291 pp., 36 color plates. ISBN 978-0730726562.
  • Wilson S, Swan G (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. ISBN 978-1921517280.



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