Woodland Tussock-skink at Kosciuszko National Park, NSW
Identification history
| Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii | 25 Jun 2017 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii | 24 Jun 2017 | WillO | ||
| Unidentified | 17 Jun 2017 | KShort |
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3 comments
Varanus
wrote:
25 Jun 2017
WillO, or possibly Three-lined Skink (Acritoscincus duperryi)? - always so difficult from photos!
WillO
wrote:
26 Jun 2017
Hi - am confident it is P. entrecasteauxii. This is the slightly more striped morph that occurs up near the tree line at Kosciuszko. It is a very similar colour pattern to A. duperryi. However the white stripes are very sharply defined in duperryi against a jet black broad lateral stripe. The head of duperryi is alsocvery slightly more pointed but it takes a lot of field observation to really get a good "feel" for that. Finally my surveys made during the many years I was doing field work at Kosciuszko for our book (Green and Osborne Wildlife of the Australian Snow) indicated that duperryi only gets to about 1600m or so in that area (gets higher in the ACT where it is milder). I hope that helps.
Location information
- Coordinates 148.328726-36.430945
- Maps Kosciuszko National Park
- Places Kosciuszko National Park, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 10 Feb 2013 02:41 PM Recorded on
- KShort Recorded by
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Collections
Reptiles and Frogs Skinks KShort
Species information
- Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii Scientific name
- Woodland Tussock-skink Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1996.1m Recorded at altitude
- 214 images trained Machine learning
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Synonyms
Leilopisma entrecasteauxii
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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