Common Garden Skink at Aranda, ACT
Identification history
| Lampropholis guichenoti | 11 Jan 2022 | wombey | ||
| Lampropholis guichenoti | 11 Jan 2022 | KMcCue |
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User's notes
Tail deficit but skink very active. Pity 'Common' appears in their name on the Canberra Nature Map but not described as common in the NPA field guide to Reptiles and Frogs of the ACT.
1 comment
WillO
wrote:
12 Jan 2022
Yes aside from the word "common" there have been some attempts over the years to also remove the words "garden" and "grass" from these skinks. Lampropholis guichenoti is variously called Grass Skink (Wilson and Swan), Garden Skink (Robertson and Coventry), Grass or Garden Skink (Bennett), Pale-flecked Garden SunSkink (Cogger). As you can see the word "common" is not in these texts so not sure where that came from.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.081833-35.257569
- Altitude 630.8m
- Places Aranda, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 11 Jan 2022 05:16 PM Recorded on
- KMcCue Recorded by
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Reptiles and Frogs Skinks KMcCue Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Lampropholis guichenoti Scientific name
- Common Garden Skink Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1448.5m Recorded at altitude
- 178 images trained Machine learning
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