Egernia cunninghami

Cunningham's Skink at Chifley, ACT

Egernia cunninghami at Chifley, ACT - 5 Nov 2011
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Identification history

Egernia cunninghami 4 Oct 2016 wombey
Egernia saxatilis 3 Oct 2016 GeoffRobertson
Egernia saxatilis 3 Oct 2016 GeoffRobertson
Egernia cunninghami 3 Oct 2016 MatthewFrawley

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9 comments

   3 Oct 2016
Very unusual colours. Love photo. John do you agree that this is a black rock skink? GeoffR
   3 Oct 2016
Thanks for the confirmation of Black Rock-skink.
wombey wrote:
   4 Oct 2016
No, this is a juvenile Cunningham Skink!
   4 Oct 2016
Thanks, that was my initial thought.
wombey wrote:
   5 Oct 2016
A trap for young players, these two!
   12 Jul 2021
The photo from this sighting has mistakenly been included in the field guide as an example of a Black Rock Skink.
wombey wrote:
   12 Jul 2021
PatrickCampbell is correct, this image should be removed from the Black Rock Skink page
   12 Jul 2021
Photos corrected for Black Rock-skink. It is a common problem we have, for when a sighting is not correctly ID'd & the image is placed on species page. Moderators forget to remove the incorrect image afterward when the ID is fixed.
   15 Jul 2021
Thanks very much John and Michael.

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  • 1 - 3 Abundance
  • 5 Nov 2011 12:00 AM Recorded on
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  • Unknown Gender

Species information

  • Egernia cunninghami Scientific name
  • Cunningham's Skink Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 1423.8m Recorded at altitude
  • 310 images trained Machine learning

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