Lampropholis guichenoti

Common Garden Skink at Stirling, ACT

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Identification history

	Lampropholis guichenoti	7 Oct 2024	wombey
	Unverified	7 Oct 2024	DesB

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User's notes

Discovered two of these together the evening before while cleaning up a raised garden bed. This one still there the next day, other had gone. Is it just a garden skink, or something different? Light was poor when I first saw them, but I thought the other had a distinctly orange tail as it ran away - made me think copper-tailed skink, but not striped like that. Note this one has a line of alternating orangey scales on side of tail. Also looked more grey than coppery on its back. Immediately dug into loose dry soil when disturbed.

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wombey wrote:

7 Oct 2024

The one with the copper tail may have been Morethia boulengeri

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Location information

Places Stirling, ACT

Sighting information

2 Abundance
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DesB Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Skinks Reptiles and Frogs

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
201 images trained Machine learning

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