South-eastern Morethia Skink: S1, Head Scales

South-eastern Morethia Skink (Morethia boulengeri)

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:

🔍S1, Head Scales🔎

Other names:

Boulenger's Skink, Common Snake-eye or Firetail Skink

Thank you Stephen Fricker, Stephen Mahony & Tony and Jenny Dominelli 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.

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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