Speckled Wall Skink: Coming out of hiding

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Reptiles (Reptilia)

Order:

Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)

Family:

Skink (Scincidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Speckled Wall Skink (Cryptoblepharus pannosus)

This Photo:

Coming out of hiding

Synonym:

Cryptoblepharus carnabyi

Other name:

Ragged snake-eyed skink

Thank you David Armstrong 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) and elsewhere

Similar Species: Mallee Snake-eyed Skink (Morethia obscura)

This species is classed as

LC (Least Concern)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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