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McIvor River slider |
Cape Flattery, Queensland Photo © Stewart Macdonald |
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Lerista ingrami | ||||||
Pronunciation | ler-ISS-tah | |||||
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Etymology |
Lerista: apparently meaningless.1
ingrami: "After Dr G.J. Ingram of the Queensland Museum."2 |
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Description
"A very small, very pale, slender Lerista with 4 fingers, 4 toes, immovable eyelid (a spectacle) and sharp-edged dark upper lateral stripe, differing from L. zonulata and L. orientalis in its lesser size, paler coloration (especially white lower lateral and ventral surfaces), fewer supraciliaries (4 or 5, v. normally 5), fewer midbody scale rows (mostly 18, v. mostly 20) and smaller nasals and frontoparietals."2 Similar species
Wide-striped four-toed slider (Lerista zonulata) - Pigmented ventral surface (vs the usually pale, unpigmented ventral surface of L. ingrami). Taxonomic notes
This species was described by Storr in 1991.2
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