NATURAL HISTORY · CATALOGUE RECORD
Great Desert-skink
Liopholis kintorei (Stirling & Zietz, 1893)
Source-backed taxonomic record
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Open encyclopedia reference
The great desert skink (Liopholis kintorei or Egernia kintorei), also known commonly as Kintore's egernia and by various other names including tjakura in various Aboriginal Australian languages, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is native to the western half of Australia. It is a burrowing lizard and extremely social.
Wikipedia contributors, Great desert skink; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T07:16:35.937160+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Liopholis kintorei (Stirling & Zietz, 1893)
- Name authority
- (Stirling & Zietz, 1893)
- Common name
- Great Desert-skink
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Scincidae
- Genus
- Liopholis
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- megaclassTetrapoda
- classReptilia Laurenti, 1768
- orderSquamata Oppel, 1811
- suborderAutarchoglossa
- familyScincidae
- subfamilyEgerniinae
- genusLiopholis
- speciesLiopholis kintorei (Stirling & Zietz, 1893)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Liopholis. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Guthega SkinkLiopholis guthega (Donnellan, Hutchinson, Dempsey & Osborne, 2002) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desert SkinkLiopholis inornata (Rosén, 1905) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Centralian Ranges Rock-skinkLiopholis margaretae (Storr, 1968) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mountain SkinkLiopholis montana (Donnellan, Hutchinson, Dempsey & Osborne, 2002) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bull SkinkLiopholis multiscutata (Mitchell & Behrndt, 1949) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| South-western Rock-skinkLiopholis pulchra (Werner, 1910) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Centralian Floodplains Desert-skinkLiopholis slateri (Storr, 1968) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| White's Rock-skinkLiopholis whitii (Lacépède, 1804) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Centralian Ranges Rock-skinkLiopholis personata (Storr, 1968) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eastern Ranges Rock-skinkLiopholis modesta (Storr, 1968) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Night SkinkLiopholis striata (Sternfeld, 1919) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Egernia kintorei Stirling & Zietz, 1893 Stirling & Zietz, 1893 | synonym |
| Egernia dahlii Boulenger, 1896 Boulenger, 1896 | synonym |
Documented distribution
Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Liopholis&species=kintorei Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:3V7BX. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.