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Western Spiny-tailed Skink |
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Western Spiny-tailed Skink |
Unable to find the correct scientific name for western spiny-tailed skink. Possible Spiny-tailed skink Egernia stokesii stokesii. 3 subspecies in Western Australia E.s stokesii, E.s aethiops and E.s badia. |
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If this one is the stokesii stokesii then it will be around 155mm in length from snout to vent. It is restricted to islands off the midwest coast of Western Australia that have heathlands and limestone where it shelters. Or it could be the stokesii badia which is the largest subspecies at 190mm from snout to vent in length. Found in the mid west of Western Australia. This photograph was taken at Perth Zoo |
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What do they eat? Insects and fruit |
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They all use their spiny tails to wedge themselves in rock crevices when predators are trying to pull them out. |
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Pygmy Spiny-tailed Skink Egernia depressa |
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What do they eat? In the wild they are Omnivores feeding on soft leaves, flowers, fruits they can reach, spiders, centipedes (as the centipede can not penetrate through their scales), and grubs. |
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This is the smallest member of this group of cunninghami skinks. There are two populations, one in the north where they live in rocky outcrops, and the southern population lives in semi arid to acacia woodlands of central western interior of WA. Isolated populations occur in Great Sandy Desert and Warburton Ranges in the northeast WA and far southwest corner of NT. Southern pygmy spiny tailed skinks shelter in hollow trunks and rocks. One litter of 2-3 live young are born in summer in the southern areas. Come back soon to see our video of these hungry little skinks eating insects at Armadale Reptile Centre. Here they have observed this little guy getting completely entangled in a spider web. |
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