Lerista

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Subordo: Scincomorpha
Superfamilia: Scincoidea

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Sphenomorphinae
Genus: Lerista
Species (98): L. aericeps – L. alia – L. allanae – L. allochira – L. ameles – L. amicorum – L. apoda – L. arenicola – L. axillaris – L. baynesi – L. bipes – L. borealis – L. bougainvillii – L. bunglebungle – L. carpentariae – L. chordae – L. christinae – L. cinerea – L. clara – L. colliveri – L. connivens – L. desertorum – L. distinguenda – L. dorsalis – L. edwardsae – L. elegans – L. elongata – L. emmotti – L. eupoda – L. flammicauda – L. fragilis – L. frosti – L. gascoynensis – L. gerrardii – L. greeri – L. griffini – L. haroldi – L. hobsoni – L. humphriesi – L. ingrami – L. ips – L. jacksoni – L. kalumburu – L. karlschmidti – L. kendricki – L. kennedyensis – L. kingi – L. labialis – L. lineata – L. lineopunctulata – L. macropisthopus – L. maculosa – L. micra – L. microtis – L. miopus – L. muelleri – L. neander – L. nevinae – L. nichollsi – L. occulta – L. onsloviana – L. orientalis – L. parameles – L. petersoni – L. picturata – L. planiventralis – L. praefrontalis – L. praepedita – L. punctatovittata – L. puncticauda – L. quadrivincula – L. robusta – L. rochfordensis – L. rolfei – L. separanda – L. simillima – L. speciosa – L. stictopleura – L. storri – L. stylis – L. taeniata – L. talpina – L. terdigitata – L. timida – L. tridactyla – L. uniduo – L. vanderduysi – L. varia – L. verhmens – L. vermicularis – L. viduata – L. vittata – L. walkeri – L. wilkinsi – L. xanthura – L. yuna – L. zietzi – L. zonulata
Name

Lerista Bell, 1833: 99

Type species: Lerista lineata Bell, 1833, by monotypy.
References
Primary references

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Additional references

Amey, A.P., Kutt, A.S. & Hutchinson, M.N. 2005. A new species of Lerista (Scincidae) from central Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 50(2): 125–131. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Smith, L.A. & Adams, M. 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(4): 309–358. DOI: 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.23(4).2007.309-357 Reference page.
Skinner, A., Lee, M.S.Y. & Hutchinson, M.N. 2008. Rapid and repeated limb loss in a clade of scincid lizards. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8: 310. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-310 Reference page.
Amey, A.P. & Couper, P.J. 2009. A new limb-reduced skink (Scincidae: Lerista) from the dry rainforest of north Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa 2173: 19–30. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page.
Amey, A.P. & Wilmer, J.W. 2014. Morphological diversity and genetic structure within Lerista kalumburu Storr, 1976 (Squamata: Scincomorpha: Sphenomorphidae)—taxonomic implications. Zootaxa 3821(2): 239–252. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3821.2.4 Reference page.
Couper, P.J., Amey, A.P. & Wilmer, J.W. 2016. Cryptic diversity within the narrowly endemic Lerista wilkinsi group of north Queensland — two new species (Reptilia: Scincidae). Zootaxa 4162(1): 61–91. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4162.1.3. Reference page.
Amey, A.P. & Edwards, D.L. 2017. Taxonomy of the Sand Sliders of Western Australia’s Central Coast (Genus Lerista, Squamata: Scincidae): Recognition of Lerista miopus (Günther, 1867). Zootaxa 4317(1): 111–133. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.1.5 Reference page.
Amey, A.P., Couper, P.J. & Wilmer, J.W. 2019. Two new species of Lerista Bell, 1833 (Reptilia: Scincidae) from north Queensland populations formerly assigned to Lerista storri Greer, McDonald and Lawrie, 1983. Zootaxa 4577(3): 473–493. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4577.3.3. Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2021. Lerista . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 2 September 2017.

Lerista is a diverse (~ 90 species) genus of skinks endemic to Australia, commonly known as sliders.[1] The genus is especially notable for the variation in the amount of limb reduction.[2][3] The variation ranges from short-bodied forms with large legs bearing five toes, to elongate forms completely lacking legs. The body length of the lizards is 33–103 millimetres (1.3–4.1 in). Their locomotion is linked to their body shape. The shorter skinks with prominent limbs travel on the surface; the longer skinks with reduced legs tend to burrow more. A phylogenetic tree of Lerista, derived from DNA analysis, reveals that limb loss has happened multiple times within this group.[4][5] Limb loss has occurred relatively recently, in the past 3.6 million years or so.

Species

The following species are recognized as being valid.[6]

Note: a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Lerista.

Lerista aericeps Storr, 1986 - desert plain slider
Lerista alia Amey, Couper, & Worthington-Wilmer, 2019 - Bulleringa fine-lined slider
Lerista allanae (Longman, 1937) - Allan's lerista, Allan's skink, greater robust fine-lined slider
Lerista allochira Kendrick, 1989 - Cape Range slider
Lerista ameles Greer, 1979 - limbless fine-lined slider
Lerista amicorum L.A. Smith & Adams, 2007 - Fortescue three-toed slider
Lerista anyara Amey, Couper, & Worthington-Wilmer, 2019 - Olkola slider skink
Lerista apoda Storr, 1976 - Dampier Land limbless slider
Lerista arenicola Storr, 1971 - bight slider
Lerista axillaris Storr, 1991 - stripe-sided robust slider
Lerista baynesi Storr, 1971 - Bayne's slider
Lerista bipes (Fischer, 1882) - north-western sandslider
Lerista borealis Storr, 1971 - inland Kimberley slider
Lerista bougainvillii (Gray, 1839) - Bougainville's skink
Lerista bunglebungle Storr, 1991 - Bunglebungle robust slider
Lerista carpentariae Greer, 1983 - Carpentaria fine-lined slider
Lerista chalybura Storr, 1985 - Pilbara blue-tailed slider
Lerista chordae Amey, Kutt & Hutchinson, 2005 - lyre-patterned slider
Lerista christinae Storr, 1979 - bold-striped slider
Lerista cinerea Greer, McDonald & Lawrie, 1983 - vine-thicket fine-lined slider
Lerista clara L.A. Smith & Adams, 2007 - sharp-blazed three-toed slider
Lerista colliveri Couper & Ingram, 1992 - nubbinned fine-lined slider
Lerista connivens Storr, 1971 - blinking broad-blazed slider
Lerista desertorum (Sternfeld, 1919) - Central Deserts robust slider
Lerista distinguenda (F. Werner, 1910) - south-western orange-tailed slider
Lerista dorsalis Storr, 1985 - southern slider
Lerista edwardsae Storr, 1982 - Myall slider
Lerista elegans (Gray, 1845) - elegant slider
Lerista elongata Storr, 1990 - wide-striped mulch slider
Lerista emmotti Ingram, Couper & Donnellan, 1993 - Noonbah robust slider
Lerista eupoda L.A. Smith, 1996 - Meekatharra slider
Lerista flammicauda Storr, 1985 - Pilbara flame-tailed slider
Lerista fragilis (Günther, 1876) - eastern mulch-slider
Lerista frosti (F. Zietz, 1920) - centralian slider
Lerista gascoynensis Storr, 1986 - Gascoyne broad-blazed slider
Lerista gerrardii (Gray, 1864) - bold-striped robust slider
Lerista greeri Storr, 1982 - south-eastern Kimberley sandslider
Lerista griffini Storr, 1982 - stout sandslider
Lerista haroldi Storr, 1983 - Gnaraloo mulch-slider
Lerista hobsoni Amey, Couper, & Worthington-Wilmer, 2016
Lerista humphriesi Storr, 1971 - taper-tailed west-coast slider
Lerista ingrami Storr, 1991 - McIvor River slider
Lerista ips Storr, 1980 - robust duneslider
Lerista jacksoni L.A. Smith & Adams, 2007 - Jackson's three-toed slider, Jackson's slider
Lerista kalumburu Storr, 1976 - Kalumburu slider
Lerista karlschmidti Marx & Hosmer, 1959 -lesser robust fine-lined slider
Lerista kendricki Storr, 1991 - dark broad-blazed slider
Lerista kennedyensis Kendrick, 1989 - Kennedy Range broad-blazed slider
Lerista kingi L.A. Smith & Adams, 2007 - King's three-toed slider, King's slider
Lerista labialis Storr, 1971 - southern sandslider
Lerista lineata Bell, 1833 - Perth slider
Lerista lineopunctulata Duméril & Bibron, 1839 - dotted-line robust slider, West Coast line-spotted lerista
Lerista macropisthopus (F. Werner, 1903) - unpatterned robust slider
Lerista maculosa Storr, 1991 - spotted broad-blazed slider
Lerista micra L.A. Smith & Adams, 2007 - micro three-toed slider, little slider
Lerista microtis (Gray, 1845) - south-western slider
Lerista miopus (Günther, 1867)
Lerista muelleri (Fischer, 1881) - wood mulch-slider, Mueller's three-toed lerista
Lerista neander Storr, 1971 - Pilbara robust slider
Lerista nevinae L.A. Smith & Adams, 2007 - Nevin's three-toed slider, Nevin's slider
Lerista nichollsi (Loveridge, 1933) - inland broad-blazed slider
Lerista occulta L.A. Smith & Adams, 2007 - hidden three-toed slider, Carnarvon slider
Lerista onsloviana Storr, 1984 - Onslow broad-blazed slider
Lerista orientalis (De Vis, 1889) - north-eastern orange-tailed slider
Lerista parameles Amey, Couper, & Worthington-Wilmer, 2019 - Chillagoe fine-lined slider
Lerista petersoni Storr, 1976 - pale broad-blazed slider
Lerista picturata (D. Fry, 1914) - southern robust slider
Lerista planiventralis (Lucas & C. Frost, 1902) - keeled slider
Lerista praefrontalis Greer, 1986 - Yampi sandslider
Lerista praepedita (Boulenger, 1887) - western worm lerista, blunt-tailed west-coast slider
Lerista punctatovittata (Günther, 1867) - eastern robust slider
Lerista puncticauda Storr, 1991 - dotty-tailed robust slider
Lerista quadrivincula Shea, 1991 - four-chained slider
Lerista robusta Storr, 1990 - brad-eyed sandslider
Lerista rochfordensis Amey & Couper, 2009 - Rochford slider
Lerista rolfei L.A. Smith & Adams, 2007 - Rolfe's three-toed slider, Rolfe's slider
Lerista separanda Storr, 1976 - Dampierland plain slider
Lerista simillima Storr, 1984 - Fitzroy sandslider
Lerista speciosa Storr, 1990 - pale-striped mulch-slider
Lerista stictopleura Storr, 1985 - spotted broad-blazed slider
Lerista storri Greer, McDonald & Lawrie, 1983 - Mount Surprise slider, Storr's lerista
Lerista stylis (F. J. Mitchell, 1955) - Arnhem Coast fine-lined slider
Lerista taeniata Storr, 1986 - ribbon slider, ribbon lerista
Lerista talpina Storr, 1991 - phantom mole slider
Lerista terdigitata (Parker, 1926) - robust mulch-slider
Lerista timida (De Vis, 1888) - dwarf three-toed slider, wood mulch-slider
Lerista tridactyla Storr, 1990 - dark-backed mulch-slider
Lerista uniduo Storr, 1984 - slender broad-blazed slider
Lerista vanderduysi Amey, Couper, & Worthington-Wilmer, 2016 - leaden-bellied fine-lined slider
Lerista varia Storr, 1986 - Shark Bay broad-blazed slider
Lerista verhmens L.A. Smith & Adams, 2007 - powerful three-toed slider
Lerista vermicularis Storr, 1982 - slender duneslider
Lerista viduata Storr, 1991 - Ravensthorpe Range slider
Lerista vittata Greer, McDonald & Lawrie, 1983 - Mount Cooper striped lerista, side-striped fine-lined slider
Lerista walkeri (Boulenger, 1891) - coastal Kimberley slider
Lerista wilkinsi (Parker, 1926) - two-toed fine-lined slider
Lerista xanthura Storr, 1976 - yellow-tailed plain slider
Lerista yuna Storr, 1991 - Yuna broad-blazed slider
Lerista zonulata Storr, 1991 - north-eastern orange-tailed slider

References

Vanderduys, Eric (7 March 2013). "Australian endangered species: Retro Slider". The Conversation: Latest Ideas and Research.
Greer, Allen E. (1990). "Limb reduction in the scincid lizard genus Lerista. 2. Variation in the bone complements of the front and rear limbs and the number of postsacral vertebrae". Journal of Herpetology. 24 (2): 142–150. doi:10.2307/1564221. JSTOR 1564221.
Greer, Allen E. (1991). "Limb reduction in squamates: identification of the lineages and discussion of the trends". Journal of Herpetology. 25 (2): 166–173. doi:10.2307/1564644. JSTOR 1564644.
Skinner, Adam; Lee, Michael S. Y. (2009). "Body form evolution in the scincid lizard clade Lerista and the mode of macroevolutionary transitions". Evolutionary Biology. 36 (3): 292–300. doi:10.1007/s11692-009-9064-9. S2CID 42060285.
Skinner, Adam; Lee, Michael S. Y.; Hutchinson, Mark N. (2008). "Rapid and repeated limb loss in a clade of scincid lizards". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 8: 310. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-310. PMC 2596130. PMID 19014443.

"Lerista ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.