Lampropholis guichenoti

Common Garden Skink at Stirling, ACT

Lampropholis guichenoti at Stirling, ACT - 6 Oct 2024
Lampropholis guichenoti at Stirling, ACT - 6 Oct 2024
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Lampropholis guichenoti 7 Oct 2024 wombey
Unidentified 7 Oct 2024 DesB

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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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  • 6 Oct 2024 03:39 PM Recorded on
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