HEATH SKINK

Photographed in Wyperfeld National Park, Victoria, January 2020

144                HEATH SKINK                     Liopholis multiscutata

AUSTRALIAN LIZARDS                  99

Also known as Bull Skink or Southern Sand-skink. Found in western Victoria; Kangaroo Island and Eyre and Yorke peninsula in SA to coastal regions of southern WA, including off-shore islands. Lives in coastal dunes and open heathlands and the complex forest and open woodlands, especially where rocky outcrops. Critically endangered in Victoria.