Description
Light brown to golden above, with scattered paler flecks. Lateral surface (sides) similar, but with a distinctive cream-white spot at the corner of the eye and an orange-red dorsolateral hip-stripe that runs above the hind limbs to the base of tail and continues over much of its upper surface. Underneath white with yellowish flush to abdomen. Body size up to 6.5 cm.
Surface active; usually only seen amongst leaf litter or ground debris at dusk or shortly after dark on warm nights. It feeds on small invertebrates. Females lay up to four eggs per clutch, sometimes in a communal nest containing the eggs of numerous females.
Author credit: Ross Sadlier / Australian Museum
Habitat
Moist forests and often in suburban gardens.
Food
Insectivore
Range
South-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: | Saproscincus | | Species: | mustelinus | | Common Name: | Weasel Skink |
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