Dec 2, 2025
Black-backed Yellow-lined Comb-eared Skink (Ctenotus eutaenius), family Scincidae, endemic to QLD, Australia
photograph by Rob Valentic
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Black-backed Yellow-lined Comb-eared Skink (Ctenotus eutaenius), family Scincidae, endemic to QLD, Australia
photograph by Rob Valentic
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New species of skink discovered in Australia in May 2025.
Ctenotus sonnemannorum from north-east Victoria. Learn more at: https://www.smuggled.com/AJH-67-pages-3-9.pdf
Ctenotus sonnemannorum
Over 30 species of small lizards, new to science in Australia. And a new genus for a divergent group of lizards in Western Australia. Learn more at http://www.herp.net
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Comb-eared Skink (Ctenotus sp.), family Scincidae, Exmouth, Western Australia
photograph by @robbesorre
#1869 -Â Ctenotus australis -Â Western Limestone Ctenotus
Originally described by Gray, J. E. as Tiliqua australis in Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. in Part 1. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (1) 1: 274-283. (1838). Various revisions have also named it Lygosoma (Hinulia, Sphenomorphus, and Omolepida) lesueri, Lygosoma australe, and Minervascincus australis.
The comb-eared skinks are the largest genus of lizards in Australia with nearly 100 species, found throughout much of Australia, but are most diverse in the deserts and tropical woodlands of Australia's north, forming 10%-25% of the total lizard fauna. In parts of the Great Sandy Desert, Ctenotus represent 11 out of the forty known lizard species. Despite the scientific name (and some frankly dubious records on the Atlas of Living Australia) this species is limited to the coastal plain of SW Australia, where-ever there are limestone outcrops. This one was at Point Peron, south of Perth.Â
There is very little variation in the overall body plan or shape across the range of species - all are typical skinks with smooth scales, long limbs with five digits and long tails up to two and half times the length of the body.
However, they vary in foraging and sheltering behaviour, and the frequency and times of activity, and their bodylength ranges from 4 to 12 centimeters. Some species are active in the middle of the day, and others only active in the mornings and late afternoon. Some forage in open spaces between plants while others forage within dense clumps of hummock grass. This partitioning of space and time probably contributes to the coexistence of many species in the same area.Â
More than one species of Copper Tailed Skink in eastern Australia.
Hoser, R. T. 2022 The Iconic Australian Copper-tailed Skink Ctenotus taeniolatus (White, 1790) split. A sign of severely under-estimated species diversity in Australia’s smaller lizards. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 59:17-20. Published 15 August 2022. http://www.smuggled.com/AJH-59-Pages-17-20.pdf
ABSTRACT For decades it has been known that species diversity in Australia’s lizards has been severely underestimated (Wells and Wellington, 1983, 1985). In the case of the well-known Copper-tailed Skink Ctenotus taeniolatus (White, 1790), with a type locality of New South Wales, this putative taxon occurs from Victoria to North Queensland, along the coast, ranges and nearby slopes. Wells and Wellington formally named Ctenotus miowera from the town with the same name, which is between Proserpine and Bowen, north Queensland in 1985. But as for most other skinks formally named by the pair in that paper, a group known as the Wolfgang Wüster gang of thieves has done an excellent job at forcing most other publishing herpetologists to pretend that the works of Wells and Wellington did not exist and likewise that the taxa they identifi ed did not exist either. At least one species formally identifi ed by Wells and Wellington (1985), being resurrected from earlier synonymy, has now become extinct arising from the anti-science suppression actions of the Wolfgang Wüster gang of thieves (Hoser 2019a, 2019b). Relying on inspection of living and dead specimens and the molecular study of Colgan et al. (2009), this paper formally recognizes Ctenotus miowera as a valid species and formally names another related species in the complex as C. robertcooki sp. nov. being from the New England Region of northern New South Wales and with a divergence of 1.75 MYA or more from the nominate form of C. taeniolatus. Keywords: Taxonomy; nomenclature; Australia; Queensland; New South Wales; New England; lizard; skink Copper-tailed skink; Ctenotus; taeniolatus; miowera; new species; robertcooki.