Description A large skink. It is pale grey, bluish-grey or grey-brown, with numerous broad orange bands and a blackish stripe on the temple behind the eye.
Active by day, it searches for smaller animals and soft vegetation to eat. Shelters in holes, burrows, grass and Spinifex clumps, or under large rocks or logs. Mates in spring, and females give birth to up to ten live young in the summer.
Author credit: Lindley McKay
Habitat Rare in drier tropical woodlands; common in arid shrubland and Spinifex grasslands.
Food Carnivore
Range Central Australia.
Credits: Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
