The eastern mourning skink (Lissolepis coventryi), also known commonly as Coventry's spinytail skink and the swamp skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia.
Etymology The specific name, coventryi, is in honor of Australian herpetologist Albert John Coventry.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Egernia coventryi, p. 60).
Geographic range L. coventryi is found in the Australian states of South Australia, Victoria, and possibly New South Wales.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of L. coventryi is freshwater wetlands such as marshes and swamps.
Description L. coventryi has an average snout-to-vent length (SVL) of , with a long tail, which is almost one and a half times SVL, ).
Reproduction L. coventryi is viviparous.
References
Further reading Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. . Storr GM (1978). "The genus Egernia (Lacertilia, Scincidae) in Western Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum 6 (2): 147–187. (Egernia coventryi, new species, pp. 175–177, Plate 1). Wilson S, Swan G (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. .