Top End Lowlands Ctenotus

About the Top End Lowlands Ctenotus

Ctenotus hilli, also known commonly as Hill's ctenotus or the Top-End lowlands ctenotus, is a species of lizard in the subfamily Sphenomorphinae of the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Northern Territory.

The specific name, hilli, is in honor of Australian zoologist Gerald Freer Hill (1880–1954). The preferred natural habitats of C. hilli are forest and vegetated coastal dunes. C. hilli has five digits on each of its four feet.

C. hilli is oviparous. Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350. Storr GM (1970). "The genus Ctenotus (Lacertilia: Scincidae) in the Northern Territory". Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 52 (4): 97–108. (Ctenotus hilli, new species, p. 103).

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