Name - Tiliqua gigas

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:93276 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Tiliqua gigas Schn.

• Tiliqua gigas (Daud.)

• Tiliqua gigas (Schneider 1801)

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Recent Publications

• Why is the tongue of blue-tongued skinks blue? Reflectance of lingual surface and its consequences for visual perception by conspecifics and predators.
• Locomotor energetics in the Indonesian blue-tongued skink (Tiliqua gigas) with implications for the cost of belly-dragging in early tetrapods.
• The role of cranial osteoderms on the mechanics of the skull in scincid lizards.
• Sex identification in juvenile and adult Indonesian blue- tongued skinks (Tiliqua gigas) through cystoscopy and accuracy of contrast radiography.
• First record of durophagous-type lizard teeth from the Deccan intertrappean beds (uppermost Cretaceous-Paleocene) of Kesavi in Madhya Pradesh, India.

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