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Cunningham's Skink at Bald Rock National Park just over the Queensland border in New South Wales. These lizards were basking on the bare rock
Image by ozwildlife - Some rights reserved.
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CUNNINGHAM'S SKINK FACTS |
Description
Cunningham's Skink colour varies from almost totally black with a few white spots, to grey with black bands, to rusty red colour.
Size
25-30cm
Habitat
around large rock outcrops, sheltering in crevices or under large slabs of rock
Food
mainly vegetarian, eats flowers, berries, shoots and leaves. Juveniles are mostly insect eaters.
Breeding
4 and 6 live young. These usually stay with parents for several years in family groups.
Range
southern Queensland to western Victoria,
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Notes
The ridged backward-facing scales of the lower body and tail make it difficult for predators to extract the lizards from rock crevices.
Classification
| Class: | Reptilia | | Order: | Squamata (Sauria) | | Family: | Scincidae | | Genus: | Egernia | | Species: | cunninghami | | Common Name: | Cunningham's Skink |
Relatives in same Genus
Hosmer's Skink (E. hosmeri)
King's Skink (E. kingii)
Land Mullet (E. major)
Stoke's Skink (E. stokesii)
White's Skink (E. whitii)
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