Name - Lerista

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:153463 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Lerista Bell 1833

• Lerista Bell 1883

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Genus

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Convergent body shapes have evolved via deterministic and historically contingent pathways in Lerista lizards.
• The convergent evolution of snake-like forms by divergent evolutionary pathways in squamate reptiles.
• A new species of Lerista Bell, 1833 (Reptilia: Scincidae) from Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, belonging to the Lerista allanae clade but strongly disjunct from other members of the Clade.
• Evolution of fossorial locomotion in the transition from tetrapod to snake-like in lizards.
• Genetic variability and the ecology of geographic range: A test of the central-marginal hypothesis in Australian scincid lizards.

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