Species profile—Pygopus nigriceps (hooded scaly-foot)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Reptilia (reptiles) → Pygopodidae (pygopodid lizards) → Pygopus nigriceps (hooded scaly-foot)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Reptilia (reptiles)
- Family
- Pygopodidae (pygopodid lizards)
- Scientific name
- Pygopus nigriceps (Fischer, 1882)
- Common name
- hooded scaly-foot
- Type reference
- Fischer, J.G. (1882) Herpetologische Bemerkungen. 2. Neue Eidechsen aus Australien und Polynesien. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 48: 286-302.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 26885
- Synonym(s)
- Pygopus territorianus
Cryptodelma nigriceps
Cryptodelma baileyi
Delma baileyi - Alternate name(s)
- western hooded scaly-foot
black-headed scaly-foot - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=26885.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
