Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii

Woodland Tussock-skink at Kosciuszko National Park, NSW

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Identification history

Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii	25 Jun 2017	MichaelMulvaney
Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii	24 Jun 2017	WillO
Unverified	17 Jun 2017	KShort

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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.

Varanus wrote:

26 Jun 2017

Thanks, WillO.

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At least 1 Abundance
10 Feb 2013 02:41 PM Recorded on
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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
218 images trained Machine learning
Synonyms
Leilopisma entrecasteauxii

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