An Orange-sided Bar-lipped Skink encounters a worm

After a dry hot afternoon, some long-overdue rain began to fall. Within ten minutes, several of these skinks popped up and started gobbling small worms and other bugs that the rain brought out.

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Ferdy Christant

Lion

You covered quite some distance in Australia: 3 photos in a row each on a different corner of the continent! Posted 8 years ago
1. John Sullivan
  
  Lion
  
  Not all from the same trip to Australia, I must admit. I was just noticing the relative paucity of skink species in JungleDragon and thought I'd add a few. (More to come.) Posted 8 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    Thanks a lot for that, also for setting the common names in the species tree, extremely helpful. Posted 8 years ago

The Orange-sided Bar-lipped Skink

A medium-sized (snout-vent length max 80mm) ground-dwelling skink of northern Northern Territory in Australia. It dwells in woodlands and forests, mainly in moist areas such as logs and suburban compost heaps, but also in dry litter near beaches.

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Similar species: Snakes And Lizards

Species identified by John Sullivan

By John Sullivan

Uploaded Dec 7, 2016. Captured Nov 12, 2009 14:51 in 530 Anzac Parade, Middle Point NT 0822, Australia.

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