The animals of Australia : mammals, reptiles and amphibians / by A.H.S. Lucas ; assisted by W.H. Dudley Le Souëf.

  • Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas
Date:
1909
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Credit: The animals of Australia : mammals, reptiles and amphibians / by A.H.S. Lucas ; assisted by W.H. Dudley Le Souëf. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The eoniiiionest species are A. houtonii and A. lineo-oceUaius^ both of which occur all over the Continent. Both are about 4 inches in length, and both vary greatly in colouring. Typically .1. boulonii is olive, spotted with black, and has a light lateral band, while .1. Hnco-oceUatus has a black white-edged lateral band. Genus Tropidoplwrus. This genns is mainly distrilnited ovei- Sonth-ea.st Asia and the iMalay Archipelago. ]\lr. De Vis has described a species, T. (picenslandiac, from Queensland. This is one of the host of Papuan forms which have gained a footing in Eastern Australia, doubtless reaching this continent before the formation of Torres Strait, which now forms a barrier to further immigration.
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