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Rainbow skink

Trachylepis margaritifera

Spotting Image 1

Notes:

Female

2 Species ID Suggestions

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Fanie
Fanie 10 years ago
Rainbow skink (female)
Trachylepis margaritifera Trachylepis margaritifera (Rainbow skink)
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Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 10 years ago
five-lined mabuya, rainbow skink
Trachylepis quinquetaeniata Rainbow Skink (Trachylepis quinquetaeniata) | Flickr - Photo Sharing!


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Fanie
Fanie 10 years ago

Mabuya quinquetaeniata margaritifera, a subspecies of Trachylepis quinquetaeniata was promoted to species level in 1998, now called Trachylepis margaritifera with a distribution of South Africa to Malawi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachylepis...

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Marek Koszorek
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Marek Koszorek

Makhado Local Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa

Spotted on Jan 12, 2008
Submitted on Nov 27, 2013

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