Mainland Three-toed Earless Skink
S2, Back Legs
Murray Mallee Region
Spotted Slider
S1, dorsal
 
                      
Copperhead Skink (Lampropholis guichenoti)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Reptiles (Reptilia)
Order: Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)
Family: Skink (Scincidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Copperhead Skink (Lampropholis guichenoti)
This Photo:     
Other names: Garden Skink or Pale-flecked Garden Sunskink

Thank you Matt Campbell for identifying and Asimakis Patitsas & Stephen Mahony for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA, Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere

Copyright © 2009-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 21-Apr-2009
This species is classed as RA (Rare) in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)