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Index Desert rainbow-skink

The desert rainbow-skink (Carlia triacantha) is an Australian skink in the genus Carlia, commonly known as four-fingered skinks, from the subfamily Lygosominae.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 20 relations: Alice Springs Desert Park, Australian Government, Carlia, Clutch (eggs), Department of the Environment and Energy, Deserts and xeric shrublands, Francis John Mitchell, Invertebrate, IUCN Red List, Leiolopisma, Lygosominae, Native species, Northern Territory, Oviparity, Plant litter, Skink, South Australia, Subfamily, Western Australia, Woodland.

  2. Carlia
  3. Reptiles described in 1953
  4. Taxa named by Francis John Mitchell

Alice Springs Desert Park

The Alice Springs Desert Park is an environmental education facility and wildlife park in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Australian Government

The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government or the Federal Government, is the national executive government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

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Carlia

Carlia is a genus of skinks, commonly known as four-fingered skinks or rainbow skinks, in the subfamily Eugongylinae. Desert rainbow-skink and Carlia are skinks of Australia.

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Clutch (eggs)

A clutch of eggs is the group of eggs produced by birds, amphibians, or reptiles, often at a single time, particularly those laid in a nest.

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Department of the Environment and Energy

The Department of the Environment and Energy (DEE) was an Australian government department in existence between 2016 and 2020.

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Deserts and xeric shrublands

Deserts and xeric shrublands are a biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.

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Francis John Mitchell

John Mitchell (Francis John Mitchell, 1929–1970) was a biologist and curator with a special interest in herpetology.

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Invertebrate

Invertebrates is an umbrella term describing animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a spine or backbone), which evolved from the notochord.

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IUCN Red List

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species.

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Leiolopisma

Leiolopisma is a genus of skinks.

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Lygosominae

Lygosominae is the largest subfamily of skinks in the family Scincidae.

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Native species

In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often popularised as "with no human intervention") during history.

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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an Australian internal territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

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Oviparity

Oviparous animals are animals that reproduce by depositing fertilized zygotes outside the body (known as laying or spawning) in metabolically independent incubation organs known as eggs, which nurture the embryo into moving offsprings known as hatchlings with little or no embryonic development within the mother.

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Plant litter

Plant litter (also leaf litter, tree litter, soil litter, litterfall or duff) is dead plant material (such as leaves, bark, needles, twigs, and cladodes) that have fallen to the ground.

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Skink

Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae, a family in the infraorder Scincomorpha.

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South Australia

South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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Subfamily

In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.

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Woodland

A woodland is, in the broad sense, land covered with woody plants (trees and shrubs), or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the plurale tantum woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (see differences between British, American and Australian English explained below).

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See also

Carlia

Reptiles described in 1953

Taxa named by Francis John Mitchell

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_rainbow-skink

Also known as Carlia triacantha.