OzAnimals.com
Australian Wildlife

  Eastern Striped Skink (Ctenotus robustus)





Eastern Striped Skink | Ctenotus robustus photo
Robust striped skink (Ctenotus robustus) near The Gap, Hat Head National Park, Australia

Image by Quartl - Some rights reserved.    (view image details)







REPTILE FACTS

Description
This Eastern Striped Skink is brown or olive-brown with stripes running along the length of the head and body. The underside is pale. The snout to vent length is about 11 cm, with total length about 23 cm.

Other Names
Robust striped skink

Size
23 cm

Habitat
dry eucalypt forest, woodlands, riverside woodlands, heaths, coastal sand dunes, rocky outcrops

Food
insects and other land invertebrates

Range
found in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Northern Territory, South Australia, north west Western Australia. Also found in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.

distribution map showing range of Ctenotus robustus in Australia

Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.



Classification
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata (Sauria)
Family:Scincidae
Genus:Ctenotus
Species:robustus
Common Name:Eastern Striped Skink

Relatives in same Genus
  Leopard Ctenotus (C. pantherinus)
  Striped Skink (C. taeniolatus)