ELEGANT RAINBOW SKINK

Photographed at Townsville Commons, Queensland, January 2021

171                   ELEGANT RAINBOW SKINK                 Carlia decora

AUSTRALIAN SKINKS                   120

Found in moist forests, vine thickets and rainforest margins of eastern Queensland about Sarina and Mount Malloy.

 

NORTHERN RED-THROATED RAINBOW SKINK

Photographed at Shipley’s Flat, North Queensland, January 2021

 170            NORTHERN RED-THROATED RAINBOW-SKINK        Carlia crypta 

AUSTRALIAN LIZARDS                119

Occurs in rainforest and associated moist habitats, including wet sclerophyll forest and montane heath; from sea level to the uplands, but typically absent from the highest peaks. Found in northern Queensland.

TWO-SPINED RAINBOW SKINK

Photographed in Kakadu, Northern Territory, April 2018

96               TWO-SPINED RAINBOW SKINK                Carlia amax

AUSTRALIAN LIZARD             64

Also known as Bauxite Rainbow Skink or Amax Rainbow Skink. Found in Kimberleys, Wa, across northern NT and nw Queensland. Eats invertebrates. Diurnal. Habit dry sclerophyll forest, humid woodland, dry woodland, dry grassland/shrubland.

Photographed at Cutta Cutta Caves, Katherine, Northern Territory, April 2018

SIX-TOOTH RAINBOW SKINK

Photographed on Horn Island, March 2018

87               SIX-TOOTH RAINBOW SKINK           Carlia sexdentata

AUSTRALIAN LIZARDS                  59

Also known as Robust Rainbow Skink. Found in NT (ne Arnham Land) and Queensland (Cape York and Torres Straits Islands).

DELICATE SKINK

Photographed at Mary Cairncross Reserve, Queensland, November 2017

54                 DELICATE SKINK                  Lampropholis delicata

AUSTRALIAN LIZARDS                    37

Also known as Dark Flecked Garden Sun Skink, Garden Skink, Plague Skink,  and in Australia and NZ as Rainbow Skink (which is a South African Skink). Originally from eastern Australia. Accidentally introduced into NZ in early 1960. More common in suburban gardens than adjacent native bushland.