| Carinascincus coventryi | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Carinascincus |
| Species: | C. coventryi |
| Binomial name | |
| Carinascincus coventryi (Rawlinson, 1975) | |
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Carinascincus coventryi, also knowncommonly asCoventry's window-eyed skink and thesouthern forest cool-skink, is aspecies oflizard in thefamilyScincidae. The species isendemic toAustralia.
Thespecific name,coventryi, is in honor of Australian herpetologistAlbert John Coventry.[3]
C. coventryi is found in the Australian states ofVictoria and southernNew South Wales.[2]
The preferred naturalhabitat ofC. coventryi isforest, at altitudes of 600–1,500 m (2,000–4,900 ft).[1]
C. coventryi may attain asnout-to-vent length (SVL) of 5 cm (2.0 in), with a long tail which is about one and a third times SVL.[4]
C. coventryi isterrestrial.[1]
C. coventryi isviviparous.[1][2]
