Mainland Three-toed Earless Skink
S2, Head, profile
Ellura
Mainland Three-toed Earless Skink
S6, Head, dorsal
 
                      
Mainland Three-toed Earless Skink (Hemiergis decresiensis ssp continentis)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Reptiles (Reptilia)
Order: Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)
Family: Skink (Scincidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Mainland Three-toed Earless Skink (Hemiergis decresiensis ssp continentis)
This Photo:     🔍S6, Head, anterior🔎
Other name: Southern Three-toed Earless Skink

Thank you John Fowler, Dr Mark Hutchinson & Patrick Campbell for identifying and Asimakis Patitsas & Stephen Mahony for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
3 fingers & 3 toes.
John, & independantly Mark, identified S1 here, which we thought was Dwarf Three-toed Slider (Lerista timida). We had already worked out that S2 was Hemiergis decresiensis.
Mark said "Clearly shows the big eyes and snub nose that distinguish Hemiergis from Lerista."
Patrick then narrowed even further to sub-species.

Copyright © 2020-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 10-Mar-2020
This species is classed as LC (Least Concern) in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)