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REPTILE FACTS |
Description
Small. Speckled grey to brown above with a bronzy head, dark sides and a ragged blackish stripe down the back. A well-defined white stripe may be present on the lower flanks.
Communal nesting is well known in this genus and the eggs of many females can be found in the same nest site. Eggs are laid by the females within a short time of each other so they hatch more or less together. Because of their small size, this species is sometime preyed upon by invertebrate predators. It has been found tangled in spider webs and is also captured by huntsman spiders. This species reaches sexual maturity within one year. Females lay a clutch of 1–7 eggs.
Author credit: Mark Hutchinson / South Australian Museum
Other Names
Common Garden Skink
Habitat
Found in open and closed forests, woodlands, coastal heaths and modified landscapes.
Food
Carnivore
Range
Eastern Australia.
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Reptilia | | Order: | Squamata (Sauria) | | Family: | Scincidae | | Genus: | Lampropholis | | Species: | guichenoti | | Common Name: | Pale-flecked Garden Sunskink |
Relatives in same Genus
Garden Skink (L. delicata)
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