Description Body yellow-brown to grey with wide dark brown stripes across the body and around the tail. Dark stripe through the eye. Up to 32 cm long (snout-vent).
Western Blue-tongues are slow moving animals. They are omnivores, eating plants, flowers, fruits, snails and small vertebrates. When threatened they hiss and stick out their tongue. Females give birth to live young.
Author credit: Museum Victoria Sciences Staff / Museum Victoria
Habitat Dry sandy areas with shrubs or heath, and woodlands with spinifex grasses.
Food Omnivore
Range Western and central southern mainland 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.
