Common Garden Skink at Stirling, ACT
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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Location information
- Places Stirling, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- DesB Recorded by
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Collections
DesB Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Lampropholis guichenoti 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
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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