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Hosmer's Skink photographed at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Brisbane, Queensland.
Image by ozwildlife - Some rights reserved.
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HOSMER'S SKINK FACTS |
Description
Hosmer's Skink is a spiny lizard with 3 or 4 sharp keels on each dorsal scale. It was one long spine on each tail scale. The body is pale yellow-brown or reddish brown. It has dark spots and pale blotches on the body - these are more prominent at the head and front part of the body.
Size
18cm
Habitat
rocky ranges and outcrops. Shelters in rock crevices
Food
leaves, shoots, berries, invertebrates
Breeding
live bearing.
Range
tropical Queensland around Gulf of Carpentaria and south of Cape York
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Reptilia | | Order: | Squamata (Sauria) | | Family: | Scincidae | | Genus: | Egernia | | Species: | hosmeri | | Common Name: | Hosmer's Skink |
Relatives in same Genus
Cunningham's Skink (E. cunninghami)
King's Skink (E. kingii)
Land Mullet (E. major)
Stoke's Skink (E. stokesii)
White's Skink (E. whitii)
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