Scientists have worked alongside Aboriginal traditional owners to discover new a skink, Liopholis aputja, in the Central Australian desert.
Scientists have worked alongside Aboriginal traditional owners to discover an "exciting" new species of lizard in the Central Australian desert.Research officer Jules Farquhar said it was most closely related to the MacDonnell Ranges rock skink of the southern Northern Territory.
"But this new lizard is actually found in mountains and ranges much further south of there, in north-west South Australia," he said.has some subtle differences in appearance, including "more orange on the face" and a different arrangement of certain scales."They're a different evolutionary lineage," he said.Mr Farquhar said there were two ways scientists discovered new species — the "fun" way and the "boring" way.
The group travelled to the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands — a vast, sparsely populated Indigenous region in remote north-west South Australia."There's about 13 members currently in that genus, and there's a few others in that area, but they all live in the sand plains surrounding the ranges," he said.
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