Bazaruto Blind Legless Skink (Acontias aurantiacus bazarutoensis), family Scincidae, Benguera Island, Mozambique

Subspecies of Golden Bling Legless Skink.

Legless lizard

photograph by Johan Marais

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

One of the most common distinguishing features between snakes and lizards is that snakes don't have eyelids, while lizards do. However, like everything in biology, there are exceptions. For example, the snake-eyed skinks are named precisely for their lack of eyelids-- though they could hardly be confused for a snake!

(Images: A ragged snake-eyed skink (Cryptoblepharus pannosus) by me!)

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A male rainbow skink (Trachylepis margaritifera) in South Africa, Africa

by Bernard Dupont

one of our garden skinks sunbathing :)

Elegant Snake-Eyed Skink (Cryptoblepharus pulcher).

Shingleback skink (Tiliqua rugosa) defensive posture in Australia

Matthew Anderson

🦎 Eastern Pilbara Spiny-tailed Skink - Egernia epsisolus 

📷 Matthijs Kuijpers

Small skink, currently unidentified.

Scincidae

18/05/22

#1869 - Ctenotus australis - Western Limestone Ctenotus

Originally described by Gray, J. E. as Tiliqua australis in Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. in Part 1. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (1) 1: 274-283. (1838). Various revisions have also named it Lygosoma (Hinulia, Sphenomorphus, and Omolepida) lesueri, Lygosoma australe, and Minervascincus australis.

The comb-eared skinks are the largest genus of lizards in Australia with nearly 100 species, found throughout much of Australia, but are most diverse in the deserts and tropical woodlands of Australia's north, forming 10%-25% of the total lizard fauna. In parts of the Great Sandy Desert, Ctenotus represent 11 out of the forty known lizard species. Despite the scientific name (and some frankly dubious records on the Atlas of Living Australia) this species is limited to the coastal plain of SW Australia, where-ever there are limestone outcrops. This one was at Point Peron, south of Perth. 

There is very little variation in the overall body plan or shape across the range of species - all are typical skinks with smooth scales, long limbs with five digits and long tails up to two and half times the length of the body.

However, they vary in foraging and sheltering behaviour, and the frequency and times of activity, and their bodylength ranges from 4 to 12 centimeters. Some species are active in the middle of the day, and others only active in the mornings and late afternoon. Some forage in open spaces between plants while others forage within dense clumps of hummock grass. This partitioning of space and time probably contributes to the coexistence of many species in the same area. 

6/24/22

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Konjac (or konjak, English: /ˈkoʊnjæk/ KOHN-yak) is a common name of his Shop. the Zelda and mario series are created on the same floor by MEMBERS of the skink family (Scincidae)

McCoy's Elf Skink aka Highlands Forest Skink (Anepischetosia maccoyi), family Scincidae, Australia

photograph by @skinkmania__

Lampropholis guichenoti, more popularly known as the grass skink, Guichenot's grass skink, the pale-flecked garden sunskink, or the penny lizard, is a small species of skink found throughout western and southern Australia. Its primary habitat is grasslands and scrublands with plenty of vegetative cover, though they are also a common sight in suburban backyards.

Though a nondescript brown, the penny lizard can be identified by a black stripe running the length of its body. Females can be distinguished by the light orange or reddish tint to their underbellies, while males are light grey. However, identifying the grass skink may prove difficult, as their small size makes them extremely good at hiding; on average an individual is only 8–10 cm (3.1–3.9 in) and weighs less than 2g (0.07 oz).

Male L. guichenoti are extremely terrirotial, and will fiercely defend their territory from other males- particularly in the spring. Breeding begins in September or October and continues throughout the summer. After mating, the female will lay about 2-6 eggs in a communal clutch alongside other females; in total these clutches can contain up to 250 eggs. These eggs hatch approximately 30 days to hatch, and young are fully independent upon emerging. On average, the grass skink can live for 2-3 years in the wild.

Because of their small size and lack of defensive systems, Guichenot's grass skink is an easy prey target for many species. Birds and feral cats are the primary predators, but the grass skink can also become a meal for larger lizards and snakes. The main way L. guichenoti avoids being lunch is by dropping its tail-- a common skink tactic. The tail continues to wriggle after being dropped, distracting the predator while the skink makes its escape and later regrows its tail. The penny lizard itself feeds mainly on small insects like crickets, isopods, earthworms, flies, and ants, as well as the occasional fruit or vegetable.

Conservation status: Lampropholis guichenoti has not been evaluated by the IUCN, but its population is generally considered to be large and stable.

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Colin Silvey

Reiner Richter via iNaturalist

Italian Three-Toed Skink (Chalcides chalcides)

Family: Skink Family (Scincidae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Like several other species of lizard, the Italian Three-Toed Skink has adapted to move through areas covered with dense vegetation by developing an elongated, flexible, snake-like body with highly regressed limbs, although unlike many other "snake-like lizards" members of this species still possess four tiny limbs, each ending in a stumpy three-toed foot. Said limbs are far too small to support the skink's weight and serve no role in movement (which is achieved through an elegant snake-like slithering motion,) which has led many to question what purpose, if any, they serve; it is generally assumed that the limbs are vestigial and that, given sufficient time, the descendants of modern Italian Three-Toed Skinks will lose them entirely, although some herpetologists and evolutionary biologists have suggested that the continued existence of this species' limbs suggests that they must serve some function, such as being moved as part of a courtship display or allowing mating individuals to hold onto one another (although as these behaviours have never been observed these suggestions are entirely speculative.) Found in damp, well-vegetated areas across most of mainland Italy as well as Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and the nearby island of Sardinia, members of this species are diurnal, feed mainly on insects and breed during the spring; like most skinks, females of this species give birth to live young, with newborns, which resemble miniature adults, being independent immediately after birth.

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A new species of African legless skink, genus Acontias Cuvier, 1816 “1817” (Squamata: Scincidae) from Serra da Neve inselberg, south-western Angola

Mariana P. Marquesa, Diogo Parrinha, Arthur Tiutenko, et al.

ABSTRACT

During a recent survey of the Serra da Neve inselberg in south-western Angola, a population of legless skinks of the genus Acontias was found. Only three species of this genus have been recorded for the country so far – A. occidentalis, A. kgalagadi and A. jappi. Using an integrative approach and combining molecular and morphological data we found that the Serra da Neve population represents a new species, closely related to species such as A. percivali and some members of the A. occidentalis species complex. In this paper, we describe this population as a new species, Acontias mukwando sp. nov. and provide brief comments on its conservation and biogeography.

Read the paper here:

Full article: A new species of African legless skink, genus Acontias Cuvier, 1816 “1817” (Squamata: Scincidae) from Serra da Neve inselberg, south-western Angola (tandfonline.com)

Great Plains skink (Plestiodon obsoletus) in Colorado, U.S.

Noah K. Fields