Broad-banded Sand-swimmer
S2, Original Tail
Mainland Three-toed Earless Skink
S2, dorsal
| Broad-banded Sand-swimmer S2, Original Tail | | Mainland Three-toed Earless Skink S2, dorsal | | ||
 | 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: | 🔍S1, dorsal & Back Legs🔎 | ||||
| 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. | |||||
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