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The blue-speckled forest-skink (''Silvascincus murrayi'') is a
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of skink
Skinks are a type of lizard belonging to the family (biology), family Scincidae, a family in the Taxonomic rank, infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different taxonomic genera, the family Scincidae is one o ...
found in Queensland
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and New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...
in Australia.
Etymology
The specific name, ''murrayi'', is in honor of Canadian oceanographer, John Murray.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Eulamprus murrayi'', p. 185; ''Eulamprus tryoni'', p. 268).
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q3060329 Silvascincus Reptiles described in 1887 Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN