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Taxonomy of the genus Eulamprus Biodiversity of the family Scincidae

Bibliography of the genus
Eulamprus (Australian Water 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.


Eulamprus in general

Done, B.S.; Heatwole, H. 1977. Social behavior of some Australian skinks. Copeia 1977(3): 419-430.

Greer, A.E. 1992. Revision of the species previously associated with the Australian scincid lizard Eulamprus tenuis. Records of the Australian Museum 44(1): 7-19.

Langkilde, T.; Shine, R. 2004. Competing for crevices: interspecific conflict influences retreat-site selection in montane lizards. Oecologia (Berlin) 140(4): 684-691.

O'Connor, D.; Moritz, C. 2003. A molecular phylogeny of the Australian skink genera Eulamprus, Gnypetoscincus and Nangura. Australian Journal of Zoology 51(4): 317-330.

Pepper, M.; Sumner, J.; Brennan, I.G.; Hodges, K.; Lemmon, A.R.; Lemmon, E.M.; Peterson, G.; Rabosky, D.L.; Schwarzkopf, L.; Scott, I.A.W.; Shea, G.; Keogh, J.S. 2018. Speciation in the mountains and dispersal by rivers: Molecular phylogeny of Eulamprus water skinks and the biogeography of eastern Australia. Journal of Biogeography 45: 2040-2052.

Wells, R.W. 2009. Some taxonomic and nomenclatural considerations on the class Reptilia in Australia. A review of the genera Eulamprus and Aphyromorphus (Scincidae), including the description of new genera and species. Australian Biodiversity Record 2009(3): 1-96.

Eulamprus heatwolei

Carlile, N.; Priddel, D.; Callaghan, S. 2013. Seabird Islands no. 19/1: Little Broughton Island, New South Wales. Corella 37(2): 41-43.

Elphick, M.J.; Thomas, J.; Shine, R. 2006. Courtship and copulation in the southern water skink, Eulamprus heatwolei. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 36(1): 25-26.

Head, M.L.; Doughty, P.; Blomberg, S.P.; Keogh, J.S. 2008. Chemical mediation of reciprocal mother-offspring recognition in the southern water skink (Eulamprus heatwolei). Austral Ecology 33(1): 20-28.

Head, M.L.; Keogh, J.S.; Doughty, P. 2002. Experimental evidence of an age-specific shift in chemical detection of predators in a lizard. Journal of Chemical Ecology 28(3): 541-554.

Head, M.L.; Keogh, J.S.; Doughty, P. 2005. Male southern water skinks (Eulamprus heatwolei) use both visual and chemical cues to detect female sexual receptivity. Acta Ethologica 8(2): 79-85.

Hodges, K.M.; Rowell, D.M.; Keogh, J.S. 2007. Remarkably different phylogeographic structure in two closely related lizard species in a zone of sympatry in south-eastern Australia. Journal of Zoology (London) 272(1): 64-72.

Keogh, J.S.; Noble, D.W.A.; Wilson, E.E.; Whiting, M.J. 2012. Activity predicts male reproductive success in a polygynous lizard. PLoS ONE 7(7): e38856, 1-5.

Langkilde, T.; Lance, V.A.; Shine, R. 2005. Ecological consequences of agonistic interactions in lizards. Ecology (Washington, D.C.) 86(6): 1650-1659.

Langkilde, T.; Shine, R. 2005. Different optimal offspring sizes for sons versus daughters may favor the evolution of temperature-dependent sex determination in viviparous lizards. Evolution 59(10): 2275-2280.

Langkilde, T.; Shine, R. 2005. How do water skinks avoid shelters already occupied by other lizards? Behaviour 142(2): 203-216.

Langkilde, T.; Shine, R. 2006. How much stress do researchers inflict on their study animals? A case study using a scincid lizard, Eulamprus heatwolei. Journal of Experimental Biology 209(6): 1035-1043.

LeBreton, M. 1992. Notes on the Blue Mountains water skink, Costinisauria leuraensis (Wells and Wellington) (Lacertilia: Scincidae). Sydney Basin Naturalist 1: 101-103.

Lunney, D.; Eby, P.; O'Connell, M. 1991. Effects of logging, fire and drought on three species of lizards in Mumbulla State Forest on the south coast of New South Wales. Australian Journal of Ecology 16(1): 33-46.

Morrison, S.F.; Keogh, J.S.; Scott, I.A.W. 2002. Molecular determination of paternity in a natural population of the multiply mating polygynous lizard Eulamprus heatwolei. Molecular Ecology 11(3): 535-545.

Penn, A.M.; Sherwin, W.B.; Lunney, D.; Banks, P.B. 2003. The effects of a low-intensity fire on small mammals and lizards in a logged, burnt forest. Wildlife Research 30(5): 477-486.

Shine, R. 2004. Does viviparity evolve in cold climate reptiles because pregnant females maintain stable (not high) body temperatures? Evolution 58(8): 1809-1818.

Shine, R. 2004. Incubation regimes of cold-climate reptiles: the thermal consequences of nest-site choice, viviparity and maternal basking. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 83(2): 145-155.

Shine, R.; Elphick, M.J.; Barrott, E.G. 2003. Sunny side up: Lethally high, not low, nest temperatures may prevent oviparous reptiles from reproducing at high elevations. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 78(3): 325-334.

Shine, R.; Harlow, P. 1993. Maternal thermoregulation influences offspring viability in a viviparous lizard. Oecologia (Heidelberg) 96(1): 122-127.

Stapley, J.; Keogh, J.S. 2004. ExpLoratory and antipredator behaviours differ between territorial and nonterritorial male lizards. Animal Behaviour 68(4): 841-846.

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.

Webb, G.A. 1995. Effects of logging on lizards in eucalypt forest at Eden, New South Wales. Australian Forestry 58(4): 155-159.

Eulamprus kosciuskoi

Coventry, A.J.; Robertson, P. 1980. New records of scincid lizards from Victoria. Victorian Naturalist 97(5): 190-193.

Done, B.S.; Heatwole, H. 1977. Effects of hormones on the aggressive behaviour and social organisation of the scincid lizard, Sphenomorphus kosciuskoi. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie 44(1): 1-12.

Kinghorn, J.R. 1932. Herpetological Notes. Records of the Australian Museum 18: 355-363.

Mansergh, I. 1982. Notes on the range extension of the alpine water skink (Sphenomorphus kosciuskoi) in Victoria. Victorian Naturalist 99(3): 123-124.

Pearson, H.E.; Shea, G.M. 2008. First record of the alpine water skink, Eulamprus kosciuskoi (Kinghorn, 1932) (Squamata: Scincidae) from Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 52(2): 238.

Wells, R.W. 2009. Some taxonomic and nomenclatural considerations on the class Reptilia in Australia. A review of the genera Eulamprus and Aphyromorphus (Scincidae), including the description of new genera and species. Australian Biodiversity Record 2009(3): 1-96.

Eulamprus leuraensis

Dubey, S.; Chevalley, M.; Shine, R. 2011. Sexual dimorphism and sexual selection in a montane scincid lizard (Eulamprus leuraensis). Austral Ecology 36(1): 68-75.

Dubey, S.; Shine, R. 2010. Plio-Pleistocene diversification and genetic population structure of an endangered lizard (the Blue Mountains water skink, Eulamprus leuraensis) in south-eastern Australia. Journal of Biogeography 37(5): 902-914.

Dubey, S.; Shine, R. 2010. Restricted dispersal and genetic diversity in populations of an endangered montane lizard (Eulamprus leuraensis, Scincidae). Molecular Ecology 19(5): 886-897.

Dubey, S.; Sinsch, U.; Dehling, M.J.; Chevalley, M.; Shine, R. 2013. Population demography of an endangered lizard, the Blue Mountains Water Skink. BMC Ecology 13: 4, 1-8.

Gorissen, S.; Mallinson, J.; Greenlees, M.; Shine, R. 2015. The impact of fire regimes on populations of an endangered lizard in montane south-eastern Australia. Austral Ecology 40(2): 170-177.

LeBreton, M. 1992. Notes on the Blue Mountains water skink, Costinisauria leuraensis (Wells and Wellington) (Lacertilia: Scincidae). Sydney Basin Naturalist 1: 101-103.

Shea, G.M.; Peterson, M. 1985. The Blue Mountains water skink, Sphenomorphus leuraensis (Lacertilia: Scincidae): a redescription, with notes on its natural history. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 108(2): 141-148.

Eulamprus quoyii

Annable, T.J.; Metcalfe, D.C. 2015. Natural history notes: Eulamprus quoyii (Eastern Water Skink). Prey competition with bird. Herpetological Review 46(1): 92.

Annable, T.J.; Metcalfe, D.C. 2015. Natural history notes: Eulamprus quoyii (Eastern Water Skink). Cannibalism. Herpetological Review 46(2): 256-257.

Borges Landaez, P.A.; Shine, R. 2003. Influence of toe-clipping on running speed in Eulamprus quoyii, an Australian scincid lizard. Journal of Herpetology 37(3): 592-595.

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

Caley, M.J.; Schwarzkopf, L. 2004. Complex growth rate evolution in a latitudinally widespread species. Evolution 58(4): 862-869.

Carazo, P.; Noble, D.W.A.; Chandrasoma, D.; Whiting, M.J. 2014. Sex and boldness explain individual differences in spatial learning in a lizard. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Series B 281(1782): 20133275.

Daniels, C.; Heatwole, H. 1984. Predators of the water skink, Sphenomorphus quoyii. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 16(1): 6-15.

Daniels, C.B. 1985. The effect of tail autotomy on the exercise capacity of the water skink, Sphenomorphus quoyii. Copeia 1985(4): 1074-1077.

Daniels, C.B. 1987. Aspects of the aquatic feeding ecology of the riparian skink Sphenomorphus quoyii. Australian Journal of Zoology 35(3): 253-258.

Daniels, C.B.; Heatwole, H. 1990. Factors affecting the escape behaviour of a riparian lizard. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 29(2): 375-387.

Daniels, C.B.; Heatwole, H.; Oakes, N. 1987. Heating and cooling rates in air and during diving of the Australian water skink, Sphenomorphus quoyii. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A Comparative Physiology 87(2): 487-492.

Daniels, C.B.; Oakes, N.; Heatwole, H. 1987. Physiological diving adaptations of the Australian water skink Sphenomorphus quoyii. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A Comparative Physiology 88(2): 187-199.

Heatwole, H.; Veron, J.E.N. 1977. Vital limit and evaporative water loss in lizards (Reptilia, Lacertilia): a critique and new data. Journal of Herpetology 11(3): 341-348.

Hutchinson, M.N.; Rawlinson, P.A. 1995. The water skinks (Lacertilia: Eulamprus) of Victoria and South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 28(2): 185-207.

Iglesias, S.; Thompson, M.B.; Seebacher, F. 2003. Energetic cost of a meal in a frequent feeding lizard. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A Molecular and Integrative Physiology 135A(3): 377-382.

Kar, F.; Whiting, M.J.; Noble, D.W.A. 2017. Dominance and social information use in a lizard. Animal Cognition 20(5): 805-812

King, D. 1964. The osteology of the water skink, Lygosoma (Sphenomorphus) quoyii. Australian Journal of Zoology 12: 201-216.

Lagos, P.A.; Ebensperger, L.A.; Herberstein, M.E. 2014. A quantitative test of the 'economic' and 'optimal' models of escape behaviour. Animal Behaviour 97: 221-227.

Law, B.S. 1990. Notes on the importance of water to water skinks (Eulamprus quoyii). Herpetofauna (Sydney) 20: 28-29.

Law, B.S. 1991. Ontogenetic habitat shift in the eastern Australian water skink (Eulamprus quoyii)? Copeia 1991(4): 1117-1120.

Law, B.S.; Bradley, R.A. 1990. Habitat use and basking site selection in the water skink, Eulamprus quoyii. Journal of Herpetology 24(3): 235-240.

McElroy, E.J.; Wilson, R.; Biknevicius, A.R.; Reilly, S.M. 2014. A comparative study of single-leg ground reaction forces in running lizards. Journal of Experimental Biology 217(5): 735-742.

Noble, D.W.A.; Byrne, R.W.; Whiting, M.J. 2014. Age-dependent social learning in a lizard. Biology Letters 10(7): 20140430.

Noble, D.W.A.; Carazo, P.; Whiting, M.J. 2012. Learning outdoors: male lizards show flexible spatial learning under semi-natural conditions. Biology Letters 8(6): 946-948.

Noble, D.W.A.; Fanson, K.V.; Whiting, M.J. 2014. Sex, androgens, and whole-organism performance in an Australian lizard. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 111(4): 834-849.

Noble, D.W.A.; Keogh, J.S.; Whiting, M.J. 2013. Multiple mating in a lizard increases fecundity but provides no evidence for genetic benefits. Behavioral Ecology 24(5): 1128-1137.

Noble, D.W.A.; McFarlane, S.E.; Keogh, J.S.; Whiting, M.J. 2014. Maternal and additive genetic effects contribute to variation in offspring traits in a lizard. Behavioral Ecology 25(3): 633-640.

Noble, D.W.A.; Wechmann, K.; Keogh, J.S.; Whiting, M.J. 2013. Behavioral and morphological traits interact to promote the evolution of alternative reproductive tactics in a lizard. American Naturalist 182(6): 726-742.

Pyke, G.H.; Miehs, A. 2001. Predation by water skinks (Eulamprus quoyii) on tadpoles and metamorphs of the green and golden bell frog (Litoria aurea). Herpetofauna (Sydney) 31(2): 99-101.

Robinson, M. 2004. Lizard predation of frog spawn. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 34(1): 61.

Salkeld, D.J. 2004. Natural history notes: Eulamprus quoyii (Eastern Water Skink). Predation. Herpetological Review 35(4): 389.

Scharzkopf, L. 2005. Sexual dimorphism in body shape without sexual dimorphism in body size in water skinks (Eulamprus quoyii). Herpetologica 61(2): 116-123.

Schwarzkopf, L. 1998. Evidence of geographic variation in lethal temperature but not activity temperature of a lizard. Journal of Herpetology 32(1): 102-106.

Simpson, K.N.G. 1973. Amphibians, reptiles and mammals of the Murray River region between Mildura and Renmark, Australia. Mitteilungen Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg 34: 275-279.

Vernon, J.E.N. 1969. An analysis of stomach contents of the water skink, Sphenomorphus quoyi. Journal of Herpetology 3: 187-189.

Veron, J.E.N. 1969. The reproductive cycle of the water skink, Sphenomorphus quoyii. Journal of Herpetology 3: 55-63.

Veron, J.E.N.; Heatwole, H. 1970. Temperature relations of the Water skink, Sphenomorphus quoyi. Journal of Herpetology 4: 141-153.

Weekes, H.C. 1927. Placentation and other phenomena in the scincid lizard Lygosoma (Hinulia) quoyi. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 52: 499-554.

Wilson, R.S.; Booth, D.T. 1998. Effect of tail loss on reproductive output and its ecological significance in the skink Eulamprus quoyii. Journal of Herpetology 32(1): 128-131.

Eulamprus tympanum

Allsop, D.J.; Warner, D.A.; Langkilde, T.; Du, W.; Shine, R. 2006. Do operational sex ratios influence sex allocation in viviparous lizards with temperature-dependent sex determination? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19(4): 1175-1182.

Banks, C.B. 1987. Notes on birth and early development in three species of common Victorian reptiles. Victorian Naturalist 104(6): 178-182.

Blomberg, S.P.; Shine, R. 2000. Size-based predation by kookaburras (Dacelo novaeguineae) on lizards (Eulamprus tympanum: Scincidae): what determines prey vulnerability? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 48(6): 484-489.

Blomberg, S.P.; Shine, R.; Brown, J.R.; Kriticos, D.J. 2001. Modelling life history strategies with capture-recapture data: Evolutionary demography of the water skink Eulamprus tympanum. Austral Ecology 26(4): 349-359.

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.

Doughty, P.; Shine, R. 1997. Detecting life history trade-offs: measuring energy stores in "capital" breeders reveals costs of reproduction. Oecologia (Heidelberg) 110(4): 508-513.

Doughty, P.; Shine, R. 1998. Reproductive energy allocation and long-term energy stores in a viviparous lizard (Eulamprus tympanum). Ecology (Washington, D.C.) 79(3): 1073-1083.

Fraser, S.; Grigg, G.C. 1984. Control of thermal conductance is insignificant to thermoregulation in small reptiles. Physiological Zoology 57(4): 392-400.

Hodges, K.M.; Rowell, D.M.; Keogh, J.S. 2007. Remarkably different phylogeographic structure in two closely related lizard species in a zone of sympatry in south-eastern Australia. Journal of Zoology (London) 272(1): 64-72.

Homan, P. 2006. An observation of a southern water skink Eulamprus tympanum giving birth. Victorian Naturalist (Blackburn) 123(3): 181.

Hoser, R.T. 2005. High density hibernacula in southern water skinks (Eulamprus tympanum). Victorian Naturalist (Blackburn) 122(2): 119.

Hosie, M.J.; Adams, S.M.; Thompson, M.B.; Murphy, C.R. 2003. Viviparous lizard, Eulamprus tympanum, shows changes in the uterine surface epithelium during early pregnancy that are similar to the plasma membrane transformation of mammals. Journal of Morphology 258(3): 346-357.

Hutchinson, M.N.; Rawlinson, P.A. 1995. The water skinks (Lacertilia: Eulamprus) of Victoria and South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 28(2): 185-207.

Lintermans, M. 1992. Predation on Eulamprus tympanum by rainbow trout. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 22(1): 34-35.

Lönnberg, E.; Andersson, L.G. 1913. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs' Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 3. Reptiles. Kunglia Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar 52(3): 1-17.

Robert, K.A.; Thompson, M.B. 2000. Influence of feeding on the metabolic rate of the lizard, Eulamprus tympanum. Copeia 2000(3): 851-855.

Robert, K.A.; Thompson, M.B. 2001. Viviparous lizard selects sex of embryos. Nature (London) 412(6848): 698-699.

Robert, K.A.; Thompson, M.B. 2007. Is basking opportunity in the viviparous lizard, Eulamprus tympanum, compromised by the presence of a predator scent? Journal of Herpetology 41(2): 287-293.

Robert, K.A.; Thompson, M.B.; Seebacher, F. 2003. Facultative sex allocation in the viviparous lizard Eulamprus tympanum, a species with temperature-dependent sex determination. Australian Journal of Zoology 51(4): 367-370.

Robert, K.A.; Thompson, M.B.; Seebacher, F. 2006. Thermal biology of a viviparous lizard with temperature-dependant sex determination. Journal of Thermal Biology 31(4): 292-301.

Rohr, D.H. 1997. Demographic and life-history variation in two proximate populations of a viviparous skink separated by a steep altitudinal gradient. Journal of Animal Ecology 66(4): 567-578.

Schwarzkopf, L. 1992. Annual variation in litter size and offspring size in a viviparous skink. Herpetologica 48(4): 390-395.

Schwarzkopf, L. 1993. Costs of reproduction in water skinks. Ecology (Tempe) 74(7): 1970-1981.

Schwarzkopf, L. 1996. Decreased food intake in reproducing lizards: a fecundity-dependent cost of reproduction? Australian Journal of Ecology 21(4): 355-362.

Schwarzkopf, L.; Shine, R. 1991. Thermal biology of reproduction in viviparous skinks, Eulamprus tympanum: why do gravid females bask more? Oecologia (Heidelberg) 88(4): 562-569.

Schwarzkopf, L.; Shine, R. 1992. Costs of reproduction in lizards: escape tactics and susceptibility to predation. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 31(1): 17-25.

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. 1987. Stomach contents of some reptiles killed on roads in the Bombala area, New South Wales. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 17(1-2): 7-8.