Lerista ingrami, also known commonly as the McIvor River slider, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Queensland in Australia.
Etymology The specific name, ingrami, is in honor of Australian herpetologist Glen Joseph Ingram.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Lerista ingrami, p. 130).
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of L. ingrami is coastal sand dunes.
Description For its genus, L. ingrami is slender, very pale, and very small. Its average snout-to-vent length (SVL) is . It has four digits on each of its four feet. The eyelid is immovable, with a transparent "spectacle".Storr GM (1991).
Behavior L. ingrami is terrestrial and fossorial.
Reproduction L. ingrami is oviparous.
References
Further reading Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. . Covacevich JA, Couper PJ, Roberts L (1997). "New data on Lerista ingrami, a rare skink from southern Cape York Peninsula, Australia". Memmoirs of the Queensland Museum 42 (1): 24. Storr GM (1991). "Revision of Lerista orientalis (Lacertilia: Scincidae) of northern Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum 51 (2): 413–417. (Lerista ingrami, new species, pp. 416–417). Wilson S, Swan G (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. .