Eastern three-lined skink

Eastern three-lined skink
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Acritoscincus
Species:
A. duperreyi
Binomial name
Acritoscincus duperreyi
(Gray, 1838)
Synonyms
  • Tiliqua duperreyi
    Gray, 1838
  • Lygosoma duperreyii
    — A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839
  • Eulepis duperreyi
    — Fitzinger, 1843
  • Leiolopisma duperreyi
    — Greer, 1982
  • Leiolopisma trilineatum
    — Greer, 1982
  • Acritoscincus duperreyi
    — Wells & Wellington, 1984
  • Acritoscincus buddeni
    Wells & Wellington, 1985
  • Bassiana duperreyi
    — Hutchinson et al., 1990
  • Pseudemoia duperreyi
    — Frank & Ramus, 1995
  • Bassiana duperreyi
    — Cogger, 2000
  • Acritoscincus duperreyi
    — S. Wilson & Swan, 2010

The eastern three-lined skink (Acritoscincus duperreyi), also known commonly as the bold-striped cool-skink, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia. A. duperreyi has been extensively studied in the context of understanding the evolution of learning, viviparity in lizards, and temperature- and genetic-sex determination. A. duperreyi is classified as a species of "Least Concern" by the IUCN.

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