Border Ranges Shadeskink

About the Border Ranges Shadeskink

Saproscincus challengeri, also known commonly as the Border Ranges shadeskink, Challenger's skink, the challenging shade skink, and the orange-tailed shadeskink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is native to New South Wales and Queensland in Australia.

George Albert Boulenger, herpetologist at the British Museum (Natural History) named S. challengeri after the Challenger expedition in 1887. The preferred natural habitat of S. challengeri is forest, at altitudes from sea level to 500 m (1,600 ft).

S. challengeri is oviparous. Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. Lacertidæ, Gerrhosauridæ, Scincidæ, Anelytropidæ, Dibamidæ, Chamæleontidæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I–XL. (Lygosoma challengeri, new species, p. 268 + Plate XIX, figures 3, 3a).

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