Proablepharus tenuis

{{Short description|Species of lizard}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Shea, G. |date=2017 |title=Proablepharus tenuis |volume=2017 |page=e.T109480916A109480925 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T109480916A109480925.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| genus = Proablepharus

| species = tenuis

| authority = (Broom, 1896)

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| synonyms = *Ablepharus tenuis
{{small|Broom, 1896}}

  • Ablepharus broomensis
    {{small|Lönnberg & Andersson, 1913}}
  • Ablepharus davisi
    {{small|Copland, 1952}}
  • Proablepharus tenuis
    {{small|— Fuhn, 1969}}

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Proablepharus tenuis, also known commonly as Broom's small skink and the northern soil-crevice skink, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia.

Geographic range

Within Australia, P. tenuis is found in northern Northern Territory, northern Queensland, and northern Western Australia.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of P. tenuis are forest and savanna.

Reproduction

P. tenuis is oviparous.

References

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Further reading

  • Broom R (1896). "On Two new Species of Ablepharus from North Queensland". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Sixth Series 18: 342–344. (Ablepharus tenuis, new species, pp. 342–343).
  • Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. {{ISBN|978-0643100350}}.
  • Wilson S, Swan G (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. {{ISBN|978-1921517280}}.

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Category:Proablepharus

Category:Reptiles described in 1896

Category:Skinks of Australia

Category:Endemic fauna of Australia

Category:Taxa named by Robert Broom