Abstract
The scincid Lizard genus Lampopholis (see Greer 1989 for current diagnosis and relationships) currently consists of 10 described species which range along the east coast of Australia from approximately the Cairns region in Queensland (Covacevich and Couper 1991) south to Tasmania (Green 1965) and west to Eyre Peninsula and Kangaroo Island in South Australia (Schwaner et al. 1985; Houston and Tyler 1979). For its size, the genus is morphologically and ecologically diverse. At one extreme is the slightly depressed, long-legged rock climbing L. mirabilis, and at the other is the attenuate, short-legged grounddwelling L. caligula. The purpose of this paper is to describe a species that extends the attenuate range of morphological diversity in the genus. The species is also unusual in that it appears to be restricted to relatively high altitudes, i.e., 2 1 180 m.
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