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Shingle backed Lizard

Tiliqua rugosa

Description:

Heavily armoured body. Various colours from dark brown to cream. It has a short, wide, stumpy tail that resembles its head which may confuse predators.

Habitat:

Roadside near Streaky Bay SA

Notes:

Short tailed slow moving species of the blue tongued skink. This is the only sub species native to Eastern Australia.

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2 Comments

KerryHawkins
KerryHawkins 10 years ago

They are quite regular appearances on the side of the road in the bush, sadly a lot of them have been run over.

Tiz
Tiz 10 years ago

What a funny looking thing! If I would see this I would probably thing that something was wrong wiht it :)

KerryHawkins
Spotted by
KerryHawkins

South Australia, Australia

Spotted on Sep 1, 2003
Submitted on Jul 1, 2013

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