Cape Melville shadeskink | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Scincidae |
Genus: | Saproscincus |
Species: | S. saltus
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Binomial name | |
Saproscincus saltus Hoskin, 2013
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The Cape Melville shadeskink (Saproscincus saltus) is a species of lizards from the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, described in 2013. [2] [3] [4] It was one of three vertebrates discovered by scientists from James Cook University and National Geographic in an area of mountain rainforest in North Queensland. [3] The lizards are active by day, running and jumping through the mossy boulder fields of Northern Queensland. [3]