Lancelin Island Skink

of Western Australia
Ctenotus lancelini

These photographs were taken at Perth Zoo. This skink is not green it is the zoo heat lamps that give the green appearance.  

It is a large skink for this genus and is reddish brown to greyish brown fading to grey on the tail with numerous long dark stripes and white spots.  From snout to vent it is approx. 80mm long.

 This skink is restricted to approx 9 hectares in Lancelin on the coast of Western Australia on limestone outcrops.  This makes this skink an endangered species according to IUCN Red list 1994.  The EPBC and Perth Zoo lists this skink as vulnerable. 

The Lancelin Island skink lives in burrows or loose sand under limestone fragments.

Females skinks who are missing their tail or still re-growing their tail will not breed that season as they need the fat stored from their tail.

This is not the same skink as the Western limestone ctentous.

 What do they eat?

I have not been able to find what these skinks eat.

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Photographed at Perth Zoo

Text;
"Australian Reptiles A Photographic Reference to the Terrestrial Reptiles of Australia" by Stephen K Wilson, David G Knowles.

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