Lerista kingi, commonly known as King's slider and King's three-toed slider, is a species of skink, in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Australian state of Western Australia.
Etymology The specific name, kingi, is in honor of Australian herpetologist Dennis King (1942–2002).Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Lerista kingi, p. 141).
Description L. kingi has three digits on each of its four feet. Adults usually have a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about and are brown dorsally.Wilson S, Swan G (2023). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Sixth Edition. Sydney: Reed New Holland Publishers. 688 pp. . (Lerista kingi, pp. 370–371). It has a fused lower eyelid, paired frontoparietal scales, and five supraciliary scales.
Habitat The preferred natural habitats of L. kingi are shrubland and savanna.
Reproduction L. kingi is oviparous.
References
Further reading Cogger HG (2018). Reptiles & Amphibians of Australia, Updated Seventh Edition. Clayton South, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxxii + 1,060 pp. . Smith LA, Adams M (2007). "Revision of the Lerista muelleri species-group (Lacertilia: Scincidae) in Western Australia, with a redescription of L. muelleri (Fischer, 1881) and the description of nine new species". Records of the Western Australian Museum 23 (4): 309–357. (Lerista kingi, new species, pp. 325–327, Figure 13).