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FIGURE 9 in Morphological and genetic data challenge species and subspecies in the Lerista microtis group (Squamata: Scincidae)

  • 1. School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
  • 2. Museum of Zoology & Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI USA.
  • 3. Collections & Research, Western Australian Museum, Welshpool, WA 6106, Australia.

Description

FIGURE 9. Select Lerista microtis specimens showing variability in size and colour pattern. (A) Specimen WAM_R113419 from Margaret River area (south-west WA) with dark grey-brown dorsal colour, orange tail and no dorsal pattering (formerly L. m. microtis); (B) specimen WAM_R129702 from Quagi Beach (south-west WA) with continuous paravertebral stripes and olive brown dorsal colour (formerly L. m. intermedia); (C) pale specimen WAM_R137656 from the Nullarbor coast in SA (formerly L. arenicola); (D) specimen SAMA_R45924 from Wedge Island (SA) showing continuous paravertebral stripes and vertebral stripe (formerly L. m. schwaneri); (E) the holotype of Lerista microtis.

Notes

Published as part of Farquhar, Jules E., Prates, Ivan, Doughty, Paul, Rabosky, Daniel L. & Chapple, David G., 2024, Morphological and genetic data challenge species and subspecies in the Lerista microtis group (Squamata: Scincidae), pp. 336-362 in Zootaxa 5437 (3) on page 354, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5437.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/10984941

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