Bellatorias

Liopholis

Lissolepis

frerei, major, obiri

guthega, inornata, kintorei, margaretae, modesta, montana, multiscutata, personata, pulchra, slateri, striata, whitii

coventryi, luctuosa

BOOK

Lizard Care from A to Z, Bartlett & Bartlett

Echsen [Lizards], Rogner

Reptiles and Amphibians, Zimmermann

Skinks, Walls

SPECIES

cunninghami

cunninghami

cunninghami

cunninghami

depressa

depressa

depressa

frerei

hosmeri

inornata

inornata

major

saxatilis

stokesi

stokesii

stokesii

striolata

striolata

whiti

QUICK INDEX

E. carinata, Dark Spinytail Skink

E. cunninghami, Cunningham's Skink

E. cygnitos, Western Pilbara Spiny-tailed Skink

E. depressa,Pygmy Spiny-Tailed Skink

E. douglasi, Kimberley Crevice Skink

E. eos, Central Pygmy Spiny-tailed Skink

E. epsilosus, Eastern Pilbara Spiny-tailed Skink

E. formosa, Goldfield's Crevice Skink

E. hosmeri, Hosmer's Skink

E. kingii, King's Skink

E. mcpheei, Eastern Crevice Skink/McPhee's Skink

E. kingii, King's Skink

E. napoleonis, South Western Crevice Skink

E. pilbarensis, Pilbara Crevice Skink

E. richardi, Bight Crevice Skink

E. roomi, South Western Rock Skink

E. rugosa, Yakka Skink

E. saxatilis, Black Rock Skink

E. stokesii, Stokes'/Gidgee Skink

E. striolata, Tree Skink

Scientific Name

Common Name

Distribution

Size

Notes

Egernia

E. carinata

Dark Spinytail Skink

South and Western Australia

8"/21cm (10cm SVL, tail approx. 110% of SVL)

Not listed by Swan and Wilson but accepted by the EMBL database. Found in the interior. Scalation details: nasals usually narrowly separated or in contact; interparietal narrower than frontal; 5-7 supraciliaries; moderately strong postnarial groove; 2-4 ear lobules; head shields regular and unfragmented. Dorsal scalation: 28-34 rows at midbody, middorsals usually with 3-4 moderate keels. Other: 18-24 smooth undivided subdigital lamellae on 4th toe. Coloration: dorsally dark grey brown, olive brown or brown, with numerous blackish and often pale-edged dashes forming 8 narrow discontinous longitudinal stripes; dark temporal streak usually continuous with blackish dorsolateral zone with scattered pale scales; upper labials pale brown or whitish, may have darker sutures; ventrally pale; chest and abdomen often flushed with pale orange, throat with grey.

E. cunninghami

Cunningham's Skink

New South Wales, Queensland, Southern Australia and Victoria

12"

Perhaps the best known of the Egernia genus, at least in captivity, and one of its bigger species. The two subspecies are not recognised in most listings and are included for the sake of completeness. See also Experiences of Cunninghams Skinks. In the wild they live communally in crevices in rock outcrops, or occasionally in hollow logs. There is still much to be learnt about the keeping of these skinks, or at least put into print. Cogger calls this a highly variable species complex, and thus individuals vary across the range. Scalation: nasals usually separated; interparietal narrower than frontal; postnarial groove present; 7-8 superciliaries; 3-5 moderate ear lobules; scales on back, flanks and tail have single sharp spiny keel. Dorsal scalation: 36-44 rows at midbody. Other: 16-22 subdigital lamellae. Coloration: overall may be grey-brown, olive-brown or a shade of brown or black; head often somewhat lighter than body, especially in young, and often with scattered whitish spots. Dorsally may be uniform or have pattern of dark brown scales and white or cream flecks or spots; in many individuals the darker markings tend to align transversely to form narrow and irregular transverse bands; in other individuals pale spots predominate. Tail usually ringed with darker brown, pale interspaces being same colour as dorsum in adults but often white in young. Ventrally whitish; usually dark brown transverse bars or variegations present on throat; these continue over whole ventral surface in young but by adulthood are usually reduced to series of scattered brown spots or obscure transverse bars on chest and abdomen. Many labials have white or cream spots. Marginal scales of eyelids pale or cream; auricular lobules pale. Reproduction: 4-6 young.

E. c. cunninghami

Cunningham's Skink

E. c. kreffti

Krefft's Spiny-Tailed Skink

E. cygnitos

Western Pilbara Spiny-tailed Skink

Australia (Western Australia)

Described in 2011. See Reptile Database for details.

E. depressa

Pygmy Spiny-Tailed Skink

Northern Territory, South and Western Australia

7"

E. douglasi

Kimberley Crevice Skink/ Douglas' Skink

Western Australia

10"

E. eos

Central Pygmy Spiny-tailed Skink

Australia (Western Australia)

E. epsilosus

Eastern Pilbara Spiny-tailed Skink

Australia (Western Australia)

E. formosa

Goldfields Crevice Skink/ Western Tree Skink

Western Australia

7½"

E. hosmeri

Hosmer's (Spiny-Tailed) Skink

Northern Territory and Queensland

?"

?

E. kingii

King's Skink

Western Australia and offshore islands

16-18"

Description: head moderate. The adpressed limbs overlap. Digits moderate. Scalation details: a curved groove behind the nostril; frontonasal in contact with the rostral; prefrontals usually forming a median suture; frontal not twice as long as broad, not or but slightly longer than the interparietal; four or five supraoculars, second largest; seven or eight supraciliaries; sixth or seventh labial entering the orbit; two to four pairs of nuchals. Ear-opening about as large as the eye-opening, with three or four pointed lobules anteriorly. 36-40 scales round the middle of the body, laterals smallest, dorsals more or less strongly bi- or tricarinate. Tail: cylindrical, a little longer than head and body; upper caudal scales keeled like the dorsals. Coloration: blackish olive with yellowish spots, or olive with light and black spots above; lower surfaces yellowish, uniform or spotted with black. [SOURCE: Boulenger]

E. mcpheei

Eastern Crevice Skink/McPhee's Skink

New South Wales and Queensland

?"

E. napoleonis

South Western Crevice Skink

SW Western Australia (coastland and adjacent hinterland)

11-12"

/.

E. pilbarensis

Pilbara (Crevice) Skink

Western Australia

11-12"

E. richardi

Bright Crevice Skink/Richard's Skink

Northern Territory

8"

Possibly synonymous with, or a subspecies of, E. carinata (Cogger).

E. roomi

E. rugosa

Yakka Skink

Queensland

16"

E. saxatilis

Black Rock Skink/Black Crevice Skink

New South Wales, Victoria

?"

The distribution of E. s. saxatilis is restricted to the Warrumbungle Mountains within the given range.

E. s. saxatilis

Warrumbungles Rock Skink

?"

E. s. intermedia

Black Rock Skink

?"

E. stokesii

Stoke's/Gidgee/ Spiny-Tailed Skink

All Australia except Victoria and Tasmania

9½-10"

E. s. stokesii

Houtman Abrolhos Gidgee Skink

Houtman Abrolhos, West Australia

E. s. aethiops

Baudin Island Gidgee Skink

Baudin Island, Shark Bay, West Australia

E. s. badia

Western Gidgee Skink

W Australia

E. s. zellingi

Eastern Gidgee Skink

E Australia

E. striolata

Tree Skink

All Australia except southern regions

8½-9"