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Eutropis carinata lankae
Common Skink is a common lizard found in home gardens, plantations and open areas from lowlands to about 1000m a.s.l. It is the largest Eutropis species of the Sri Lanka. It is diurnal and terrestrial in habits and feeds on grasshoppers, beetles, earth worms and sometime even on small frogs and reptiles. It can be usually seen basking on rocks and walls sometime as pairs
Spotted on Jan 5, 2013
Submitted on Jan 5, 2013
2 Comments
Very shy actually. Really have to stalk them to get a good photo
I am tripping over these every day. I have three varieties and will put them up soon. Not easy to get a good shot of them, a bit shy.
Dave