Carinascincus coventryi

Coventry’s Skink

Common name: Coventry’s Skink. SVL: 50 mm

Coventry’s Skink is one of eight skinks known as snow or cool skinks  which belong to the Eugongylus Group group of skinks.

Coventry’s Skink is a slender species. It has been described as having ‘a uniform dark brown upper surface with paler stripes commencing in front of the shoulder’. It has many fine flecks (black, sometimes white) covering its body.

Distribution: Definitely a high country specialist, that seems to be found at most high altitudes in the Canberra region.

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Species information

• Carinascincus coventryi Scientific name
• Coventry’s Skink Common name
• Not Sensitive
• Local Native
• Non-Invasive
• 1105.9m to 1573.8m Recorded at altitude
• Synonyms

  Niveoscincus coventryi

Location information

• Maps

  Namadgi National Park Kosciuszko National Park

• Places

  Tennent, ACT Cotter River, ACT Kosciuszko National Park, NSW

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