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Bassiana duperreyi
A long-bodied skink with fairly short limbs. This species normally has a clearly defined pattern of stripes running length-ways down the body, including a black, sharply-defined stripe along the upper sides.
Dry sclerophyll bush land.
Three-lined skinks are one of the few egg-laying (oviparous) lizards occurring in Tasmania.
Spotted on Feb 14, 2009
Submitted on Mar 18, 2011
2 Comments
If I remember correctly, we have 14 skinks and just one lizard species in Tasmania. Oh, and three species of snake. Except for the big blue-tongues, none of our skinks are very colorful, but I think they are all pretty nonetheless.
cool!