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.[2]
| Proablepharus tenuis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Proablepharus |
| Species: | P. tenuis
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| Binomial name | |
| Proablepharus tenuis (Broom, 1896)
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Geographic range edit
Within Australia, P. tenuis is found in northern Northern Territory, northern Queensland, and northern Western Australia.[1][2]
Habitat edit
The preferred natural habitats of P. tenuis are forest and savanna.[1]
Reproduction edit
References edit
- ^ a b c Shea, G. (2017). "Proablepharus tenuis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T109480916A109480925. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T109480916A109480925.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ a b c d Proablepharus tenuis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 September 2019.
Further reading edit
- 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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