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Hooded/ Black-headed Scaly-foot Pygopus nigriceps Harmless |
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Hooded/ Black-headed Scaly-foot Pygopus nigriceps Harmless |
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There are two subspecies; P.n. nigriceps and P.n schraderi and one undescribed subspecies which is found in the north of WA. Snout to vent it is approx 180mm long. The tail is approx twice the length of the body. This one was photographed at the Alice Springs Desert Park in Alice Springs. |
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P. n. nigriceps occupies the western range in places that support hummock grasses, woodlands etc. It shelters beneath rocks, abandoned burrows, cracks in the ground or under vegetation. It does not like to live in cooler moist places like the southwest of WA. |
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What does it eat? It is a hunter
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Here you can see the tracks left by the scaly foot which are more like snake tracks than lizard tracks. Come back soon to see our video of this legless lizard at the Alice Springs Desert Park. This legless lizard is more active on sunset and at dawn. Or nocturnal in the hotter months. The Hooded Scaly foot has much larger hindlimb flaps. |
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Text "Australian Reptiles A Photographic Reference to the Terrestrial Reptiles of Australia" by Stephen K Wilson, David G Knowles. |
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