South-eastern Morethia Skink
S1, dorsal
South-eastern Morethia Skink
S1, profile
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| South-eastern Morethia Skink S1, dorsal | | South-eastern Morethia Skink S1, profile | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Reptiles (Reptilia) | ||||||||||||||
| Order: | Scaled Reptiles (Squamata) | |||||||||||||||
| Family: | Skink (Scincidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||
| Species: | South-eastern Morethia Skink (Morethia boulengeri)| This Photo: | 🔍S2, Male, dorsal🔎 | Other names: | Boulenger's Skink, Common Snake-eye or Firetail Skink | Thank you Stephen Fricker, Stephen Mahony & Tony and Jenny Dominelli (Cinclosoma) for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Flinders Ranges and elsewhere 4 fingers and 5 toes. The 1st specimen we found was small at ~44mm SVL. Weighting ~1.6gm The eybrow shot shows the single supraciliary scales interlocking; as opposed to 2 for M. obscura. With S2 & S3 you can see the strong red throat colour of the male in breeding colours.
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