Saproscincus lewisi, also known commonly as the Cooktown shade-skink and the northern wet tropics shadeskink, is a species of lizard in the subfamily Eugongylinae of the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Queensland in Australia.
Etymology The specific name, lewisi, is in honor of Lewis Roberts, who collected the holotype.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Saproscincus lewisi, p. 157).
Description Adults of S. lewisi have a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about . At midbody the scales are arranged in 22–24 rows around the body. Dorsally, it is brown or bronze, with darker flecks.Wilson S, Swan G (2023). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Sixth Edition. Sydney: Reed New Holland Publishers. 688 pp. . (Saproscincus lewisi, pp. 428–429).
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of S. lewisi is forest.
Reproduction S. lewisi is oviparous.
References
Further reading Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. . Couper PJ, Keim LD (1998). "Two new species of Saproscincus (Reptilia: Scincidae) from Queensland". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42 (2): 465–473. (Saproscincus lewisi, new species, pp. 469–471, Figures 5–6).