Species profile—Praeteropus auxilliger (sandstone worm-skink)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Reptilia (reptiles) → Scincidae (skinks) → Praeteropus auxilliger (sandstone worm-skink)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Reptilia (reptiles)
- Family
- Scincidae (skinks)
- Scientific name
- Praeteropus auxilliger Hutchinson, Couper, Amey & Worthington Wilmer, 2021
- Common name
- sandstone worm-skink
- Type reference
- Hutchinson, M.N, Couper, P., Amey, A. & Worthington Wilmer, J. (2021). Diversity and systematics of limbless skinks (Anomalopus) from eastern Australia and the skeletal changes that accompany the substrate swimming body form. Journal of Herpetology 55(4), 361-384.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 36768
- Alternate name(s)
- sandstone legless skink
- Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Terrestrial
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=36768.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
