Broad-banded Sand-swimmer: S1, Head

Broad-banded Sand-swimmer (Eremiascincus richardsonii)

Class:

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

Order:

Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)

Family:

Skink (Scincidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Broad-banded Sand-swimmer (Eremiascincus richardsonii)

This Photo:

S1, Head

Thank you David Muirhead (DaveMMDave) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA, Riverland and possibly elsewhere
5 fingers & 5 toes.
We found a number of these on an expedition North of here, with a team of people helping with id's.
They have quite a bit of yellow around the mouth.
The main specimen here lost it's tail at some point, with the 2nd one showing an original tail.

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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