Reptiles

Bibliography of Tasmanian Grass skinks presently assigned to the genus Pseudemoia.

Brereton, R.N., Taylor, R.J., Rhodes, M. 1996. Vertebrates of the Domain, an urban bushland remnant in Hobart. Tasmanian Naturalist 118: 31-40

Bryant, S. & Jackson, J. 1999. Tasmania’s Threatened Fauna Handbook: what, where and how to protect Tasmania’s threatened animals. Threatened Species Unit, Parks and Wildlife Service, Hobart

Green, Ken, & Osborne, William 1994. Wildlife of the Australian Snow Country Reed Books, Chatswood NSW.

Rounsevell, D. & Swain, R. 1993. Current issues in the conservation of the terrestrial herpetofauna of Tasmania. In 'Herpetology in Australia'. Ed. by D. Lunney & D. Ayers, pp 71-74. Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Sydney.

Bugledich, E. 1985. Viviparity and placentation in five species of Australian scincid Lizards. Honours thesis, Dept. Zoology, ANU Canberra.

Donnellan, S. C. and Hutchinson, M.N. 1990. Biochemical and morphological variation in the geographically widespread lizard Leiolopisma entrecasteauxii (Lacertilia: Scincidae). Herpetologica 46: 145-155

Fühn, I.E. 1967. Pseudemoia, eine neue monotypische Gattung aus Sudoaustralien (Ablepharus/Emoia/spenceri) Lucas and Frost, 1894. Zoologischer Anzeiger [Leipzig], 179 (3-4): 243-247 (Description of Pseudemoia)

Harrison, L. & Weekes, H.C. 1925. On occurrence of placentation in the scincid lizard Lygosoma entrecasteuxii. Proc. Linn. Soc. NSW 50(4):105-117

Hudson, S. 1999. Parturition in the Tussock skink, Pseudemoia pagenstecheri. Herpetofauna. 29(1):58-59.
(Information on specimens from Victoria; Mating occurs in Autumn, females ovulate in spring, young are born in Summer. Females eat the extra-embryonic material. Neonates appear to hide from mum once active. Females were occasionally observed eating their young.)

Hutchinson, M. N., Donnellan, S. C., Baverstock, P. Krieg, M, Simms, S., & Burgin, S. 1990. Immunological relationships and generic revision of the Australian lizards assigned to the genus Leiolopisma (Scincidae, Lygosominae). Aust. J. Zool. 38(5)

Hutchinson, M. N. & Donnellan, S. C. 1988. A new species of scincid lizard related to Leiolopisma entrecasteauxii, from southeastern Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 112: 143-151
(Description of Pseudemoia rawlinsoni)

Hutchinson, M. N. & Donnellan, S. C. 1992. Taxonomic and genetic variation in the Australian lizards of the genus Pseudemoia (Scincidae: Lygosominae), J. Nat Hist, 26, 215-264

Lindholm, W.A. 1901. Bemerkungen und Beschreibung einer neuen Eidechsenart versehen von W.A. Lindholm. in Lampe, E., Catalog der Reptilien-Sammlung (Schildkroten, Crocodile, Eidechsen und Chamaeleons) des Naturhist. Museums zu Wiesbaden. Jb. Nassau Ver. Naturk. 54: 177-222.
(Description of Lygosoma (Leiolopisma) pagenstecheri)

Melville, J. & Swain, R. 1998. Evolutionary relationships within the snow skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Niveoscincus) of Tasmania. Australian Institute of Biology. Symposia Proceedings: Evolutionary Biology at High Southern Latitudes, Hobart 1997, 11: 22-25.

Rawlinson, P. A., 1974. Revision of the endemic southeastern Australian lizard genus Pseudemoia (Scincidae: Lygosominae) Mem. Nat. Mus. Vict. 35: 87-96

Redburn, K., 1999. Life History and Habitat of the Tussock Skink, Pseudemoia pagenstecheri in Tasmania. BSc. (Hons.) thesis, University of Tasmania.
(A comprehensive study of the species in Tasmania)

Rounsevell, D., Brereton, R. & Hutchinson, M. 1996. The Reptiles of Northeast Tasmania with New Records and a Key to Species of Grass Skinks, Genus Pseudemoia. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 103:193-200
(Provides a key for the problematic genus Pseudemoia in Tasmania

Stewart, J.R. & Thompson, M.B. 1993. A novel pattern of embryonic nutrition in a viviparous reptile. Journal of Experimental Biology 174: 97-108

Thompson, M.B. & Stewart, J.R. 1994. Egg and clutch size of viviparous Australian skink Pseudemoia pagenstecheri and the identity of species with type III allantoplacentae. Journal of Herpetology 28: 519-521

Weekes, H.C., 1930. On Placentation in reptiles. II. Proc. Linn. Soc. NSW 55(5): 550-576

Wells, R.W. & Wellington C.R. 1984. A Synopsis of the Class Reptilia in Australia. Aust. J. Herp. 1 (3-4) : 73-129