Cunningham's Skink at Dunlop, ACT
Identification history
| Egernia cunninghami | 6 Oct 2016 | wombey | ||
| Tiliqua rugosa | 14 Dec 2015 | GeoffRobertson | ||
| Egernia cunninghami | 13 Dec 2015 | NathanaelC |
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5 comments
NathanaelC
wrote:
14 Dec 2015
I know my photo isn't conclusive for identification, although every time I've found reptiles in a granite crevice they've been Cunningham's ... other lizards have different habitat preferences. This is a photo of a Cunningham's that shows texture for comparison. Shinglebacks are far more "knobbly" http://davidcook.com.au/images/images_frogs_reptiles/cunningham's_skink.jpg
GeoffRobertson
wrote:
14 Dec 2015
Nathaneal, the scales and colour are definitely not those of a Cunningham but are definitely consistent with local shingleback. All I can say is that you could not have seen a long tapering tail. Possibly its back leg may have looked like a tail. Geoff
wombey
wrote:
6 Oct 2016
Geoff, This definitely a Shingleback. Forget the colour, look at the long spiky tail!
Location information
- Coordinates 149.035334-35.263597
- Maps The Pinnacle
- Places Dunlop, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 13 Dec 2015 07:36 AM Recorded on
- NathanaelC Recorded by
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Collections
NathanaelC Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Egernia cunninghami Skinks Reptiles and Frogs
Species information
- Egernia cunninghami Scientific name
- Cunningham's Skink Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1817.1m Recorded at altitude
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