2023年6月26日 星期一

skink/common garden skink

 Our longtime broadhead is often joined now by a juvenile five-lined skink. Both skinks have a scar that marks the place where they once lost a tail in escaping from a predator. The five-lined skink looks to have regrown more than one tail. Its scars are overlapping.



石龍子

Common garden skink
Garden skink.jpg
Scientific classificationEdit this classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Scincidae
Genus:Lampropholis
Species:
L. guichenoti
Binomial name
Lampropholis guichenoti
Synonyms
  • Lygosoma guichenoti
    A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839
  • Lygosoma duperreyii
    A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839 (part)
  • Lygosoma (Mocoa) guttulatum
    W. Peters, 1881
  • Lygosoma (Leiolopisma) guichenoti
    — M.A. Smith, 1937
  • Lampropholis guichenoti
    — Greer, 1974[1]

The common garden skink (Lampropholis guichenoti) is a small species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia. Additional common names for L. guichenoti include grass skinkGuichenot's grass skinkpale-flecked garden sunskink, and penny lizard.

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