Three-toed Skink at Aranda, ACT
Identification history
| Hemiergis talbingoensis | 4 Mar 2023 | wombey | ||
| Lampropholis delicata | 4 Mar 2023 | CarbonAI | ||
| Hemiergis decresiensis | 4 Mar 2023 | KMcCue |
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User's notes
Excited to see this one again, and on the opposite side of the park.
5 comments
wombey
wrote:
4 Mar 2023
The local Hemiergis is now called talbingoensis. Due to a recent revision, decresiensis, which once included our local form, is now confined to SA.
KMcCue
wrote:
4 Mar 2023
John, why Talbingo?
Wikipedia: Talbingo resident Jack Bridle, whose family were early European settlers of the area, suggests the name to be a corruption of the English word "tall" and the Aboriginal words "Binji", "Binge" or "Bingo" meaning belly. Mount Talbingo resembles the big belly of a man lying down.
Wikipedia: Talbingo resident Jack Bridle, whose family were early European settlers of the area, suggests the name to be a corruption of the English word "tall" and the Aboriginal words "Binji", "Binge" or "Bingo" meaning belly. Mount Talbingo resembles the big belly of a man lying down.
wombey
wrote:
4 Mar 2023
Following the revision, the next available name for the species found in this area was a subspecies talbingoensis described by Copland in 1964, holotype from Talbingo, NSW. If the name reflects the locality then it should end in "ensis".
Location information
- Coordinates 149.081803-35.257703
- Altitude 635.7m
- Places Aranda, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 4 Mar 2023 09:49 AM Recorded on
- KMcCue Recorded by
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Reptiles and Frogs Skinks KMcCue Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Hemiergis talbingoensis Scientific name
- Three-toed Skink Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1305.51m Recorded at altitude
- 133 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Hemiergis decresiensis Hemiergis decresiensis talbingoensis
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