Eastern Mourning Skink

About the Eastern Mourning Skink

The eastern mourning skink (Lissolepis coventryi), also known commonly as Coventry's spinytail skink and the swamp skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia. The specific name, coventryi, is in honor of Australian herpetologist Albert John Coventry.

L. coventryi is found in the Australian states of South Australia, Victoria, and possibly New South Wales. The preferred natural habitat of L. coventryi is freshwater wetlands such as marshes and swamps. L. coventryi has an average snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 10 cm (3.9 in), with a long tail, which is almost one and a half times SVL, 15 cm (5.9 in)).

L. coventryi is viviparous. Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350. Storr GM (1978). "The genus Egernia (Lacertilia, Scincidae) in Western Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum 6 (2): 147–187. (Egernia coventryi, new species, pp. 175–177, Plate 1).

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