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	Class:	Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Reptiles (Reptilia)
	Order:	Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)
	Family:	Skink (Scincidae)     iNaturalist Observation
	Species:	South-eastern Morethia Skink (Morethia boulengeri)
	This Photo:	🔍Eyebrow🔎
	Other names:	Boulenger's Skink, Common Snake-eye or Firetail Skink
	Thank you Stephen Fricker & Stephen Mahony for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere The specimen we found was small at ~44mm SVL. Weighting ~1.6gm The eybrow shot shows the single supraciliary scales interlocking; as opposed to 2 for M. obscura.
	Copyright © 2019-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 13-Sep-2019
This species is classed as  LC (Least Concern)  in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)