Menetia maini
{{Short description|Species of lizard}}
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| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = Shea G (2017). "Menetia maini ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T109480189A109480208.en. Accessed on 20 April 2025.
| genus = Menetia
| species = maini
| authority = Storr, 1976
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| synonyms = *Menetia zynja
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Menetia maini, also known commonly as Main's menetia, Main's dwarf skink, and the northern dwarf skink, is a species of skink in the subfamily Eugongylinae native to northern central Australia.
Etymology
The specific name, maini, is in honor of Australian ecologist Albert "Bert" Russell Main.{{EponymDictionaryReptiles}}{{rp|166}}
Description
A small species, Menetia maini may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of {{cvt|25|mm|in}}. Dorsally, it is coppery brown. It has three scales in a row between the nasal scale and the eye.{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=S. |author1-link=Steve K. Wilson |last2=Swan |first2=G. |author2-link=species:Gerry Swan |title=A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Sixth Edition |date=2023 |publisher=Reed New Holland Publishers |location=Sydney |isbn=978-1-92554-671-2}} 688 pp. {{rp|410–411}}
Geographic range
Menetia maini is found in Northern Territory, Queensland, and Western Australia, Australia.
Habitat
Diet
Menetia maini preys upon invertebrates.{{rp|408}}
Reproduction
Menetia maini is oviparous.
References
Further reading
- {{cite book |last1=Cogger |first1=H.G. |author1-link=Harold Cogger |title=Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition |date=2014 |publisher=CSIRO Publishing |location=Clayton, Victoria, Australia |isbn=978-0643100350}} xxx + 1,033 pp.
- {{cite journal |last1=Ingram |first1=G.J. |author1-link=species:Glen Joseph Ingram |title=Three Species of Small Lizards – two of them new, Genus Menetia (Lacertilia, Scincidae) in Queensland |journal=Victorian Naturalist |date=1977 |volume=94 |issue=5 |pages=184–187}} (Menetia zynja, new species, pp. 186–187).
- {{cite journal |last1=Rankin |first1=P.R. |author1-link=species:Peter R. Rankin |title=A taxonomic revision of the genus Menetia (Lacertilia, Scincidae) in the Northern Territory |journal=Records of the Australian Museum |date=1979 |volume=32 |issue=14 |pages=491–499}} (Menetia maini, pp. 495–496 + Figures 1–3).
- {{cite journal |last1=Storr |first1=G.M. |author1-link=Glen Milton Storr |title=The genus Menetia (Lacertilia, Scincidae) in Western Australia |journal=Records of the Western Australian Museum |date=1976 |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=189–200}} (Menetia maini, new species, pp. 198–199 + Figures 1, 3).
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Category:Reptiles described in 1976
Category:Endemic fauna of Australia
Category:Taxa named by Glen Milton Storr
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