Mallee Snake-eyed Skink
Back Pattern
Mallee Snake-eyed Skink
Climbing
| Mallee Snake-eyed Skink Back Pattern | | Mallee Snake-eyed Skink Climbing | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Reptiles (Reptilia) | |||
| Order: | Scaled Reptiles (Squamata) | ||||
| Family: | Skink (Scincidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Mallee Snake-eyed Skink (Morethia obscura) | ||||
| This Photo: | Ventral | ||||
Thank you Stephen Fricker & Stephen Mahony for confirming the id of this species for us EXTRA - Photo Specific Information: This chap was climbing all over a Westringia Rigida bush hunting. Notice the copper tone at certain light angles, as shown clearer later. General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere We haven't managed to catch any yet, so don't have an measurments We can see two supraciliary scales interlocking; as opposed to 1 for M. boulengeri Stephen Mahony said "The supraciliaries are certainly right for M. obscura." Similar Species: Speckled Wall Skink (Cryptoblepharus pannosus) | |||||
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