Saturday, March 6, 2021

ALPINE WATER SKINK

Photographed at Falls Creek, Victoria, March 2021

176                ALPINE WATER SKINK                Eulamprus kosciuskoi

AUSTRALIAN LIZARD.            125

Inhabits Alpine woodlands, heaths and tussock grasslands. Isolated populations occur in Snowy Mountains of NSW and adjacent areas of Victoria, New England Plateau and Barrington Tops, ne NSW and Stanthorpe area, Queensland. Basks on rocks and tussocks, often near small streams. Critically endangered in Victoria.




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