Eastern Desert Comb-eared Skink
S2, dorsal
Eastern Desert Comb-eared Skink
S2, profile
| Eastern Desert Comb-eared Skink S2, dorsal | | Eastern Desert Comb-eared Skink S2, profile | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Reptiles (Reptilia) | |||
| Order: | Scaled Reptiles (Squamata) | ||||
| Family: | Skink (Scincidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Eastern Desert Comb-eared Skink (Ctenotus regius) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S3, profile🔎 | ||||
Thank you Stephen Mahony, Tony and Jenny Dominelli & Bruce Edley for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found in the Murray Mallee SA, Flinders Ranges, Riverland and possibly elsewhere 5 fingers & 5 very long toes. We found a number of these on an expedition North of here, with a team of people helping with id's. Very similar to the Eastern Spotted Ctenotus we find here at Ellura. The main difference is the solid line between the eye & the front shoulder seen here, missing on C. orientalis. There are a couple of specimens depicted here, we suspect S3 is an adult (~65mm SVL & less colourful) & S2 is a juvenile (less spotty). Unfortunately we didn't measure the size of S2. Similar Species: Eastern Spotted Comb-eared Skink (Ctenotus orientalis) | |||||
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