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Taxonomy of the genus Niveoscincus Biodiversity of the family Scincidae

Bibliography of the genus
Niveoscincus (Snow Skinks)

(Reptilia: Sauria: Scincidae)

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Niveoscincus in general

Dudley, A.P. 1992. Lizards observed at Cradle Mountain National Park, Tasmania, 7 December 1988. Sydney Basin Naturalist 1: 76.

Hudson, S. 1996. Natural toe loss in southeastern Australian skinks: implications for marking lizards by toe-clipping. Journal of Herpetology 30(1): 106-110.

Hutchinson, M.N.; Donnellan, S.C.; Baverstock, P.R.; Krieg, M.; Simms, S.; Burgin, S. 1990. Immunological relationships and generic revision of the Australian lizards assigned to the genus Leiolopisma (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Australian Journal of Zoology 38(5): 535-554.

Hutchinson, M.N.; Schwaner, T.D. 1991. Genetic relationships among the Tasmanian scincid lizards of the genus Niveoscincus. Journal of Herpetology 25(1): 49-58.

Melville, J. 2007. Evolutionary correlations between microhabitat specialisation and locomotor capabilities in the lizard genus Niveoscincus. Australian Journal of Zoology 55(6): 351-355.

Melville, J.; Swain, R. 1998. Evolutionary relationships within the snow skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Niveoscincus) of Tasmania. Australian Biologist 11(1): 22-25.

Melville, J.; Swain, R. 1999. Habitat associations and natural history of the Tasmanian "snow skinks" (Niveoscincus spp.). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 133(1): 57-64.

Melville, J.; Swain, R. 2000. Evolutionary relationships between morphology, performance and habitat openness in the lizard genus Niveoscincus (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 70(4): 667-683.

Melville, J.; Swain, R. 2000. Mitochondrial DNA-sequence based phylogeny and biogeography of the snow skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Niveoscincus) of Tasmania. Herpetologica 56(2): 196-208.

Melville, J.; Swain, R. 2003. Evolutionary correlations between escape behaviour and performance ability in eight species of snow skinks (Niveoscincus: Lygosominae) from Tasmania. Journal of Zoology (London) 261(1): 79-89.

Patterson, G.B.; Daugherty, C.H. 1995. Reinstatement of the genus Oligosoma (Reptilia: Lacertilia: Scincidae). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 25(3): 327-331.

Niveoscincus coventryi

Brown, G.W.; Nelson, J.L. 1993. Influence of successional stage of Eucalyptus regnans (mountain ash) on habitat use by reptiles in the Central Highlands, Victoria. Australian Journal of Ecology 18(4): 405-417.

Murphy, K.; Hudson, S.; Shea, G.M. 2006. Reproductive seasonality of three cold-temperate viviparous skinks from southeastern Australia. Journal of Herpetology 40(4): 454-464.

Stewart, J.R.; Thompson, M.B. 1998. Placental ontogeny of the Australian scincid lizards Niveoscincus coventryi and Pseudemoia spenceri. Journal of Experimental Zoology 282(4-5): 535-559.

Webb, G.A. 1985. Habitat use and activity patterns in some southeastern Australian skinks. pp. 23-30. In: Grigg, G.; Shine, R. & Ehmann, H. (eds.). Biology of Australian frogs and reptiles. Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty & the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Chipping Norton (NSW). 527 pp.

Webb, G.A. 1995. Diet and food selection in a community of small ground-dwelling lizards and frogs in south-eastern Australia. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 25(2): 36-44.

Niveoscincus greeni

Caldwell, A.J.; While, G.M.; Beeton, N.J.; Wapstra, E. 2015. Potential for thermal tolerance to mediate climate change effects on three members of a cool temperate lizard genus, Niveoscincus. Journal of Thermal Biology 52: 14-23.

Melville, J. 2002. Competition and character displacement in two species of scincid lizards. Ecology Letters 5(3): 386-393.

Oliver, P. 2006. New distribution records for some Tasmanian snow skinks (Niveoscincus). Herpetofauna (Sydney) 36(2): 112-116.

Rawlinson, P.A. 1975. Two new lizard species from the genus Leiolopisma (Scincidae: Lygosominae) in southeastern Australia and Tasmania. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 36: 1-16.

Niveoscincus metallicus

Brattstrom, B.H. 1971. Critical thermal maxima of some Australian skinks. Copeia 1971: 554-557.

Brothers, N.P. 1980. Seabird islands. No. 101. The Nuggets, Tasmania. Corella 4(4): 110-112.

Chapple, D.G.; McCoull, C.J.; Swain, R. 2002. Changes in reproductive investment following caudal autotomy in viviparous skinks (Niveoscincus metallicus): Lipid depletion or energetic diversion? Journal of Herpetology 36(3): 480-486.

Chapple, D.G.; McCoull, C.J.; Swain, R. 2004. Effect of tail loss on sprint speed and growth in newborn skinks, Niveoscincus metallicus. Journal of Herpetology 38(1): 137-140.

Chapple, D.G.; Swain, R. 2002. Distribution of energy reserves in a viviparous skink: Does tail autotomy involve the loss of lipid stores? Austral Ecology 27(5): 565-572.

Chapple, D.G.; Swain, R. 2002. Effect of caudal autotomy on locomotor performance in a viviparous skink, Niveoscincus metallicus. Functional Ecology 16(6): 817-825.

Chapple, D.G.; Swain, R. 2004. Caudal autotomy does not influence thermoregulatory characteristics in the metallic skink, Niveoscincus metallicus. Amphibia-Reptilia 25(3): 326-333.

Chapple, D.G.; Swain, R. 2004. Inter-populational variation in the cost of autotomy in the metallic skink (Niveoscincus metallicus). Journal of Zoology (London) 264(4): 411-418.

Dudley, A.P. 1992. Reptiles and frogs observed in the Mount Ronald Cross area, Tasmania, 27 January 1989. Sydney Basin Naturalist 1: 83.

Girling, J.E.; Jones, S.M.; Swain, R. 2002. Induction of parturition in snow skinks: Can low temperatures inhibit the actions of AVT? Journal of Experimental Zoology 293(5): 525-531.

Green, R.H. 1974. Albatross Island. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 51: 1-17.

Green, R.H. 1977. The vertebrate fauna of Maggs Mountain, Tasmania. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (Launceston) 58: 1-40.

Green, R.H. 1979. A survey of the vertebrate fauna of the Sumac Forest and the Dempster Plains, north-west Tasmania. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 65: 1-9.

Green, R.H. 1984. The Vegetation, Fauna and Archaeology of Ordnance Point, North-Western Tasmania. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 84: 1-67.

Jones, S.M.; Swain, R. 1996. Annual reproductive cycle and annual cycles of reproductive hormones in plasma of female Niveoscincus metallicus (Scincidae) from Tasmania. Journal of Herpetology 30(2): 140-146.

Loveridge, A. 1939. A new skink (Leiolepisma hawaiiensis) from Honolulu. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 52: 1-2.

McCoy, C.J.; Busack, S.D. 1970. The lizards Hemidactylus frenatus and Leiolopisma metallica on the island of Hawaii. Herpetologica 26: 303.

Melville, J. 1994. The microhabitat separation of two closely related lizards: Niveoscincus microlepidotus and N. metallicus. B.Sc. (Hons.) Thesis, University of Tasmania.

Melville, J.; Swain, R. 1997. Daily and seasonal activity patterns in two species of high altitude skink, Niveoscincus microlepidotus and N. metallicus, from Tasmania. Journal of Herpetology 31(1): 29-37.

Melville, J.; Swain, R. 1997. Spatial separation in two sympatric skinks, Niveoscincus microlepidotus and N. metallicus, from Tasmania. Herpetologica 53(1): 126-132.

Oliver, P. 2006. New distribution records for some Tasmanian snow skinks (Niveoscincus). Herpetofauna (Sydney) 36(2): 112-116.

O'Shaughnessy, A.W.E. 1874. A description of a new species of Scincidae in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser. 4) (London) 13: 298-301.

Quay, W.B. 1973. Geographic spread and habits of the metallic skink, Lygosoma metallicum, on Kauai, Hawaiian Islands. Journal of Herpetology 7(3): 308-309.

Rounsevell, D. 1993. Metallic skinks Niveoscincus metallicus sampled by a cattle egret Ardeola ibis in Hobart. Tasmanian Naturalist 112: 7-8.

Schulz, M.; Kristensen, K. 1994. The occurrence of the metallic skink Niveoscincus metallicus in the intertidal zone in south-west Tasmania. Tasmanian Naturalist 116: 20-22.

Skira, I.J.; Brothers, N.P. 1988. Seabird islands No. 184. Great Dog Island, Furneaux Group, Tasmania. Corella 12(3): 82-84.

Stewart, J.R.; Thompson, M.B. 1994. Placental structure of the Australian lizard, Niveoscincus metallicus (Squamata: Scincidae). Journal of Morphology 220(3): 223-236.

Swain, R.; Jones, S.M. 1994. Annual cycle of plasma testosterone and other reproductive parameters in the Tasmanian skink, Niveoscincus metallicus. Herpetologica 50(4): 502-509.

Swain, R.; Jones, S.M. 2000. Facultative placentotrophy: Half-way house or strategic solution? Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A Molecular and Integrative Physiology 127A(4): 441-451.

Swain, R.; Jones, S.M. 2000. Maternal effects associated with gestation conditions in a viviparous lizard, Niveoscincus metallicus. Herpetological Monographs 14: 432-440.

Templeton, M.T. 1972. Reptiles of King Island. Tasmanian Naturalist 31: 1-2.

Thompson, M.B.; Speake, B.K.; Stewart, J.R.; Russell, K.J.; McCartney, R.J.; Surai, P.F. 1999. Placental nutrition in the viviparous lizard Niveoscincus metallicus: the influence of placental type. Journal of Experimental Biology 202(21): 2985-2992.

White, G. 1979. Seabird island. Flat Island, Tasmania. Corella 3(3): 70-72.

Niveoscincus microlepidotus

Atkins, N.; Swain, R.; Jones, S.M. 2006. Does date of birth or a capacity for facultative placentotrophy influence offspring quality in a viviparous skink, Niveoscincus microlepidotus? Australian Journal of Zoology 54(5): 369-374.

Atkins, N.; Swain, R.; Jones, S.M. 2007. Are babies better in autumn or spring? The consequences of extending gestation in a biennially reproducing viviparous lizard. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology 307A(7): 397-405.

Caldwell, A.J.; While, G.M.; Beeton, N.J.; Wapstra, E. 2015. Potential for thermal tolerance to mediate climate change effects on three members of a cool temperate lizard genus, Niveoscincus. Journal of Thermal Biology 52: 14-23.

Girling, J.E.; Jones, S.M.; Swain, R. 2002. Delayed ovulation and parturition in a viviparous alpine lizard (Niveoscincus microlepidotus): Morphological data and plasma steroid concentrations. Reproduction Fertility and Development 14(1-2): 43-53.

Girling, J.E.; Jones, S.M.; Swain, R. 2002. Induction of parturition in snow skinks: Can low temperatures inhibit the actions of AVT? Journal of Experimental Zoology 293(5): 525-531.

Hutchinson, M.N.; Robertson, P.; Rawlinson, P.A. 1989. Redescription and ecology of the endemic Tasmanian scincid lizards Leiolopisma microlepidotum and L. pretiosum. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 123: 257-274.

Melville, J. 1994. The microhabitat separation of two closely related lizards: Niveoscincus microlepidotus and N. metallicus. B.Sc. (Hons.) Thesis, University of Tasmania.

Melville, J. 2002. Competition and character displacement in two species of scincid lizards. Ecology Letters 5(3): 386-393.

Melville, J.; Swain, R. 1997. Daily and seasonal activity patterns in two species of high altitude skink, Niveoscincus microlepidotus and N. metallicus, from Tasmania. Journal of Herpetology 31(1): 29-37.

Melville, J.; Swain, R. 1997. Spatial separation in two sympatric skinks, Niveoscincus microlepidotus and N. metallicus, from Tasmania. Herpetologica 53(1): 126-132.

Melville, J.; Swain, R. 1999. Home-range characteristics of an alpine lizard, Niveoscincus microlepidotus (Scincidae), on Mt Wellington, southern Tasmania. Wildlife Research 26(3): 263-270.

Oliver, P. 2006. New distribution records for some Tasmanian snow skinks (Niveoscincus). Herpetofauna (Sydney) 36(2): 112-116.

Olsson, M.; Birkhead, T.; Shine, R. 1999. Can relaxed time constraints on sperm production eliminate protandry in an ectotherm? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 66(2): 159-170.

Olsson, M.; Shine, R. 1998. Chemosensory mate recognition may facilitate prolonged mate guarding by male snow skinks, Niveoscincus microlepidotus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 43(6): 359-363.

Olsson, M.; Shine, R. 1998. Timing of parturition as a maternal care tactic in an alpine lizard species. Evolution 52(6): 1861-1864.

Olsson, M.; Shine, R. 1999. Plasticity in frequency of reproduction in an alpine lizard, Niveoscincus microlepidotus. Copeia 1999(3): 794-796.

Olsson, M.; Shine, R. 2000. Ownership influences the outcome of male-male contests in the scincid lizard, Niveoscincus microlepidotus. Behavioral Ecology 11(6): 587-590.

Olsson, M.; Shine, R. 2001. Facultative sex allocation in snow skink lizards (Niveoscincus microlepidotus). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14(1): 120-128.

Olsson, M.; Shine, R. 2002. Growth to death in lizards. Evolution 56(9): 1867-1870.

Olsson, M.; Shine, R. 2003. Female-biased natal and breeding dispersal in an alpine lizard, Niveoscincus microlepidotus. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 79(2): 277-283.

Olsson, M.; Shine, R.; Ba'k-Olsson, E. 2000. Lizards as a plant's 'hired help': Letting pollinators in and seeds out. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 71(2): 191-202.

Olsson, M.; Shine, R.; Ba'k-Olsson, E. 2000. Locomotor impairment of gravid lizards: is the burden physical or physiological? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 13(2): 263-268.

Olsson, M.; Shine, R.; Wapstra, E. 2001. Costs of reproduction in a lizard species: a comparison of observational and experimental data. Oikos 93(1): 121-125.

Olsson, M.; Shine, R.; Wapstra, E.; Ujvari, B.; Madsen, T. 2002. Sexual dimorphism in lizard body shape: The roles of sexual selection and fecundity selection. Evolution 56(7): 1538-1542.

Olsson, M.; Ujvari, B.; Wapstra, E.; Madsen, T.; Shine, R.; Bensch, S. 2005. Does mate guarding prevent rival mating in snow skinks? A test using AFLP. Herpetologica 61(4): 389-394.

O'Shaughnessy, A.W.E. 1874. A description of a new species of Scincidae in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser. 4) (London) 13: 298-301.

Shine, R.; Olsson, M.M. 2003. When to be born? Prolonged pregnancy or incubation enhances locomotor performance in neonatal lizards (Scincidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16(5): 823-832.

Niveoscincus ocellatus

Atkins, N.; Swain, R.; Wapstra, E.; Jones, S.M. 2007. Late stage deferral of parturition in the viviparous lizard Niveoscincus ocellatus (Gray 1845): implications for offspring quality and survival. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 90(4): 735-746.

Atkins, N.M.; Wapstra, E. 2004. Successful treatment of a mite infestation in gravid Spotted Snow Skinks (Niveoscincus ocellatus). Herpetofauna (Sydney) 34(2): 66-69.

Boyle, M.; Hone, J.; Schwanz, L.E.; Georges, A. 2014. Under what conditions do climate-driven sex ratios enhance versus diminish population persistence. Ecology and Evolution 4(23): 4522-4533.

Cadby, C.D.; Jones, S.M.; Wapstra, E. 2014. Geographical differences in maternal basking behaviour and offspring growth rate in a climatically widespread viviparous reptile. Journal of Experimental Biology 217(7): 1175-1179.

Cadby, C.D.; While, G.M.; Hobday, A.J.; Uller, T.; Wapstra, E. 2010. Multi-scale approach to understanding climate effects on offspring size at birth and date of birth in a reptile. Integrative Zoology 5(2): 164-175.

Caldwell, A.J.; While, G.M.; Beeton, N.J.; Wapstra, E. 2015. Potential for thermal tolerance to mediate climate change effects on three members of a cool temperate lizard genus, Niveoscincus. Journal of Thermal Biology 52: 14-23.

Cliff, H.B.; Wapstra, E.; Burridge, C.P. 2015. Persistence and dispersal in a southern hemisphere glaciated landscape: the phylogeography of the Spotted Snow Skink (Niveoscincus ocellatus) in Tasmania. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15: 121.

Cunningham, G.D.; While, G.M.; Wapstra, E. 2017. Climate and sex ratio variation in a viviparous lizard. Biology Letters 13(5): 20170218

Fearn, S. 2008. Predation on nectar feeding Hymenoptera in shrubs by the Ocellated Skink Niveoscincus ocellatus (Squamata: Scincidae). Herpetofauna (Sydney) 38(1): 59-60.

Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History), London. 289 pp.

Green, R.H. 1977. The vertebrate fauna of Maggs Mountain, Tasmania. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (Launceston) 58: 1-40.

Hewer, A.M. 1954. Snails and reptiles on Betsy Island. Tasmanian Naturalist N.S. 2(2) [1951]: 7.

Oliver, P. 2006. New distribution records for some Tasmanian snow skinks (Niveoscincus). Herpetofauna (Sydney) 36(2): 112-116.

Pen, I.; Uller, T.; Feldmeyer, B.; Harts, A.; While, G.M.; Wapstra, E. 2010. Climate-driven population divergence in sex-determining systems. Nature (London) 468(7322): 436-439.

Skira, I.J.; Brothers, N.P. 1988. Seabird islands No. 184. Great Dog Island, Furneaux Group, Tasmania. Corella 12(3): 82-84.

Stewart, J.R.; Thompson, M.B. 2004. Placental ontogeny of the Tasmanian scincid lizard, Niveoscincus ocellatus (Reptilia: Squamata). Journal of Morphology 259(2): 214-237.

Thompson, M.B.; Speake, B.K.; Stewart, J.R.; Russell, K.J.; McCartney, R.J. 2001. Placental nutrition in the Tasmanian skink, Niveoscincus ocellatus. Journal of Comparative Physiology B Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology 171(2): 155-160.

Uller, T.; While, G.M.; Cadby, C.D.; Harts, A.; O'Connor, K.; Pen, I.; Wapstra, E. 2011. Altitudinal divergence in maternal thermoregulatory behaviour may be driven by differences in selection on offspring survival in a viviparous lizard. Evolution 65(8): 2313-2324.

Wapstra, E. 2000. Maternal basking opportunity affects juvenile phenotype in a viviparous lizard. Functional Ecology 14(3): 345-352.

Wapstra, E.; Olsson, M.; Shine, R.; Edwards, A.; Swain, R.; Joss, J.M.P. 2004. Maternal basking behaviour determines offspring sex in a viviparous reptile. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Series B 271: S230-S232, (Supplement 4).

Wapstra, E.; O'Reilly, J.M. 2001. Potential 'costs of reproduction' in a skink: inter- and intrapopulational variation. Austral Ecology 26(2): 179-186.

Wapstra, E.; Swain, R. 1996. Feeding ecology of the Tasmanian spotted skink, Niveoscincus ocellatus (Squamata: Scincidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 44(2): 205-213.

Wapstra, E.; Swain, R. 2001. Geographic and annual variation in life-history traits in a temperate zone Australian skink. Journal of Herpetology 35(2): 194-203.

Wapstra, E.; Swain, R. 2001. Reproductive correlates of abdominal fat body mass in Niveoscincus ocellatus, a skink with an asynchronous reproductive cycle. Journal of Herpetology 35(3): 403-409.

Wapstra, E.; Swain, R.; Jones, S.M.; O'Reilly, J. 1999. Geographical and annual variation in reproductive cycles in the Tasmania spotted snow skink, Niveoscincus ocellatus (Squamata: Scincidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 47(6): 539-550.

Wapstra, E.; Swain, R.; O'Reilly, J.M. 2001. Geographic variation in age and size at maturity in a small Australian viviparous skink. Copeia 2001(3): 646-655.

Wapstra, E.; Uller, T.; Sinn, D.L.; Olsson, M.; Mazurek, K.; Joss, J.; Shine, R. 2009. Climate effects on offspring sex ratio in a viviparous lizard. Journal of Animal Ecology 78(1): 84-90.

Wapstra, E.; Uller, T.; While, G.M.; Olsson, M.; Shine, R. 2010. Giving offspring a head start in life: field and experimental evidence for selection on maternal basking behaviour in lizards. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23(3): 651-657.

While, G.M.; Wapstra, E. 2009. Snow skinks (Niveoscincus ocellatus) do not shift their sex allocation patterns in response to mating history. Behaviour 146(10): 1405-1422.

Yuni, L.P.E.K.; Jones, S.M.; Wapstra, E. 2015. Energy expenditure of the Spotted Snow Skink, Niveoscincus ocellatus, at two climatic extremes of its distribution range. Journal of Thermal Biology 52: 208-216.

Niveoscincus orocryptus

Hutchinson, M.N.; Schwaner, T.D.; Medlock, K. 1988. A new species scincid lizard (Lygosominae: Leiolopisma) from the highlands of Tasmania. Royal Society of Victoria Proceedings 100: 67-73.

Niveoscincus palfreymani

Brothers, N.; Wiltshire, A.; Pemberton, D.; Mooney, N.; Green, B. 2003. The feeding ecology and field energetics of the Pedra Branca skink (Niveoscincus palfreymani). Wildlife Research 30(1): 81-87.

Brothers, N.P. 1979. Seabird islands. Pedra Branca, Tasmania. Corella 3(3): 58-60.

Hickey, G. 1986. Pedra Branca skink. Australian Natural History 22(2): 81.

Rounsevell, D. 1989. Managing offshore island reserves for nature conservation in Tasmania (Pedra Branca, Macquarie and Chappell Islands). pp. 157-161. In: Burbidge, A.A. (ed.). Australian and New Zealand islands: nature conservation values and management. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Perth, Western Australia.

Rounsevell, D.; Brothers, N.; Holdsworth, M. 1985. The status and ecology of the Pedra Branca skink, Pseudemonia palfreymani [Pseudemoia palfreymani]. pp. 477-480. In: Grigg, G.; Shine, R. & Ehmann, H. (eds.). Biology of Australian frogs and reptiles. Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty & the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Chipping Norton (NSW). 527 pp.

Niveoscincus pretiosus

Brothers, N.P. 1979. Seabird islands. Mewstone, Tasmania. Corella 3(3): 68-69.

Brothers, N.P.; Rounsevell, D.E.; Brown, M.J. 1979. A Landing on the Mewstone. Tasmanian Naturalist 59: 1-2.

Dudley, A.P. 1992. Lizards and frogs observed at Lake Sydney and environs, Tasmania, 23 January 1989. Sydney Basin Naturalist 1: 84.

Green, R.H. 1974. Albatross Island. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 51: 1-17.

Green, R.H. 1977. The vertebrate fauna of Maggs Mountain, Tasmania. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (Launceston) 58: 1-40.

Green, R.H. 1984. The Vegetation, Fauna and Archaeology of Ordnance Point, North-Western Tasmania. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 84: 1-67.

Hutchinson, M.N.; Robertson, P.; Rawlinson, P.A. 1989. Redescription and ecology of the endemic Tasmanian scincid lizards Leiolopisma microlepidotum and L. pretiosum. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 123: 257-274.

O'Shaughnessy, A.W.E. 1874. A description of a new species of Scincidae in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser. 4) (London) 13: 298-301.

Souf, W.H.D. le 1907. Wildlife in Australia. Whitcombe & Tombs, Melbourne.

Templeton, M.T. 1972. Reptiles of King Island. Tasmanian Naturalist 31: 1-2.

White, G. 1979. Seabird island. Flat Island, Tasmania. Corella 3(3): 70-72.

White, G. 1979. Seabird islands. De Witt Island, Tasmania. Corella 3(3): 63-65.

White, G. 1979. Seabird islands. Flat Witch Island, Tasmania. Corella 3(3): 66-67.

White, G. 1979. Seabird islands. Louisa Island, Tasmania. Corella 3(3): 161-62.