The brown-backed ctenotus ( Ctenotus coggeri), also known Common name as Cogger's ctenotus, is a species of skink, a lizard in the subfamily Sphenomorphinae of the family Scincidae. The species is Endemism to the Northern Territory in Australia.
Etymology
The specific name,
coggeri, is in honor of Australian herpetologist
Harold Cogger.
[; ; (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Cogger's Ctenotus Ctenotus coggeri ", p. 56).]
Habitat
The preferred natural
habitat of
C. coggeri is
forest.
Description
C. coggeri is heavy-bodied and large for its
genus. The maximum recorded snout-to-vent length (SVL) is .
[Sadlier RA (1985).]
Reproduction
C. coggeri is
Oviparity.
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Further reading
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Harold Cogger (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. .
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Sadlier RA (1985). "A New Australian scincid lizard, Ctenotus coggeri, from the Alligator Rivers Region, Northern Territory". Records of the Australian Museum 36 (3): 153–156.
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, (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. .
