ELEGANT SNAKE-EYED LIZARD

Photographed at Mon Repos, Queensland February 2018

79                        ELEGANT SNAKE-EYED SKINK               Cryptoblepharus pulcher pulcher

AUSTRALIAN LIZARDS                       53

Also known as Fence Skink. Common on fences, buildings and in suburban environments. Agile, leaping from branch to branch chasing small insects and spiders; observed robbing ant columns of lava and dead insects. Found along NSW east coast and about midway up Q coast; and along coast of se WA and SA coast fro Port Augusta to WA border.