THE REPTILES OF AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIAN REPTILE PHOTOS AND INFORMATION
Covering Snakes and Lizards, Crocodiles and Turtles, including Colubrid snakes, Pythons, Elapids (called Cobras or Coral Snakes in some countries), Sea Snakes, File Snakes, Blind (or Worm) Snakes, Sea Turtles, Freshwater Turtles (or Tortoises) Dragon Lizards (Agamas), Gecko's, Legless Lizards, Monitor Lizards (often called Goanna's in Australia), Skinks and Crocodilia.

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SKINKS OF AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (ACT)
(Canberra region only - excludes Jervis Bay Territory)

ACT HOME
	Colubrids & Mud Snakes	Pythons	Elapid Snakes	Sea Snakes	File Snakes	Blind Snakes

Turtles Tortoises	Dragons Agamas	Geckos	Legless Lizards	Monitor Lizards	Skinks	Crocodiles

Listing of the Skinks
found in the
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (ACT)
(Canberra region only - excludes Jervis Bay Territory)

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia (paraphyletic)
Subclass:	Diapsida
(unranked):	Sauria
Infraclass:	Lepidosauromorpha
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Scleroglossa
Infraorder:	Scincomorpha
Family:	Scincidae
Subfamily:	Lygosominae

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Distribution Key

COMMON NAME (Internal Link)	SCIENTIFIC NAME (External Link)	DISTRIBUTION
Eastern Three-lined Skink	Acritoscincus duperreyi	NSW, ACT, Vic, SA, Tas
Red-throated Skink	Acritoscincus platynotum (=platynotus)	NSW, ACT, Qld, Vic
Highlands Forest-skink or McCoy's Skink	Anepischetosia (was Nannoscincus) maccoyi	NSW, ACT, Vic, SA, Tas
Southern Rainbow-skink	Carlia tetradactyla	NSW, ACT, Qld, Vic, ACT
*Ragged Snake-eyed Skink	Cryptoblepharus pannosus	SA, NT, NSW, QLD, Vic, ACT (possibly introduced)
Eastern Ctenotus	Ctenotus orientalis (was C. uber orientalis)	Vic, Qld, NSW, ACT, SA, WA, ACT
*Robust Striped Skink or Eastern Striped Skink (Status uncertain)	Ctenotus robustus or Ctenotus spaldingi (Status uncertain) ( includes skinks previously known as Ctenotus borealis)	NSW, ACT, , NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA
*Spalding's or Straight-browed Ctenotus (Status uncertain)	Ctenotus spaldingi (see Ctenotus robustus)	NSW, ACT, , NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA (Distribution uncertain)
Copper-Tailed Skink	Ctenotus taeniolatus	NSW, ACT, Qld, Vic, ACT
Cunningham's Skink	Egernia cunninghami cunninghami	NSW, ACT, Qld, SA, Vic
Common Black Rock Skink	Egernia saxatilis intermedia	NSW, ACT, Vic
Tree Skink	Egernia striolata	NSW, ACT, Qld, SA, Vic
Yellow Bellied Water Skink or Warm-temperate Water-skink	Eulamprus heatwolei	NSW, ACT, Vic, SA
Alpine Water Skink	Eulamprus kosciuskoi	NSW, ACT, Vic
Eastern (Common) Water Skink	Eulamprus quoyii	NSW, ACT, Qld, SA, Vic
*Southern Water-skink or Cool-temperate Water-skink	Eulamprus tympanum tympanum	NSW, ACT, Vic, SA
*Eastern Three-toed Earless Skink	Hemiergis talbingoensis talbingoensis (split from decresiensis)	Vic, NSW, ACT
*Grass Skink or Dark-flecked Garden Sunskink	Lampropholis delicata	NSW, ACT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic
Common Grass Skink or Garden Skink	Lampropholis guichenoti	NSW, ACT, Qld, SA, Vic
Bougainville's Skink (South-eastern Slider)	Lerista bougainvillii	NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, ACT?
Mountain Skink	Liopholis (was Egernia) montana	NSW, ACT, Vic, ACT
*White's Skink	Liopholis (was Egernia) whitii (includes skinks previously known as Egernia whitii tenobrosa)	NSW, ACT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic
Common Dwarf Skink	Menetia greyii	NSW, ACT, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA
*South-eastern Morethia Skink	Morethia boulengeri	NSW, ACT, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA
*Southern Forest Cool-skink	Carinascincus (was Niveoscincus) coventryi	NSW, ACT, Vic
*Southern Grass Skink	Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii	NSW, ACT, SA, Tas, Vic, ACT
Tussock Skink	Pseudemoia pagenstecheri	NSW, ACT, SA, Tas, Vic, ACT
Glossy Grass Skink	Pseudemoia rawlinsoni	NSW, ACT, SA, Tas, Vic, ACT
*Spencers' Skink or Trunk-climbing Cool-skink	Pseudemoia spenceri	NSW, ACT, Vic
*Weasel Skink	Saproscincus mustelinus	NSW, ACT, Vic
Blotched Blue-Tongued Lizard	Tiliqua nigrolutea	NSW, ACT, SA, Tas, Vic
Shingle-Back	Tiliqua rugosa	NSW, ACT,Qld, SA, Vic, WA
Eastern (Common) Blue-Tongued Lizard	Tiliqua scincoides scincoides	NSW, ACT, Qld, SA, Vic

DISTRIBUTION KEY
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CI = Christmas Island	CKI = Cocos (Keeling) Island	NSW = New South Wales
NT = Northern Territory	Qld = Queensland	SA = South Australia
Tas = Tasmania	Vic = Victoria	WA = Western Australia
NI = Norfolk Island	LHI = Lord Howe Island	ACT = Australian Capital Territory (Canberra region only - excludes Jervis Bay Territory)

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SKINKS OF AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (ACT) (Canberra region only - excludes Jervis Bay Territory)

Colubrids & Mud Snakes

Pythons

Sea Snakes

File Snakes

Crocodiles

Listing of the Skinks found in the AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (ACT) (Canberra region only - excludes Jervis Bay Territory)

Kingdom:

Phylum:

Class:

Reptilia (paraphyletic)

Subclass:

(unranked):

Infraclass:

Order:

Suborder:

Infraorder:

Family:

Subfamily:

* Indicates recent updates or new page.

Distribution Key

COMMON NAME (Internal Link)

SCIENTIFIC NAME (External Link)

DISTRIBUTION

Acritoscincus duperreyi

NSW, ACT, Vic, SA, Tas

Acritoscincus platynotum (=platynotus)

NSW, ACT, Qld, Vic

Anepischetosia (was Nannoscincus) maccoyi

NSW, ACT, Vic, SA, Tas

Carlia tetradactyla

NSW, ACT, Qld, Vic, ACT

*Ragged Snake-eyed Skink

Cryptoblepharus pannosus

SA, NT, NSW, QLD, Vic, ACT (possibly introduced)

Ctenotus orientalis (was C. uber orientalis)

Vic, Qld, NSW, ACT, SA, WA, ACT

*Robust Striped Skink or Eastern Striped Skink (Status uncertain)

Ctenotus robustus or Ctenotus spaldingi (Status uncertain) ( includes skinks previously known as Ctenotus borealis)

NSW, ACT, , NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA

*Spalding's or Straight-browed Ctenotus (Status uncertain)

Ctenotus spaldingi (see Ctenotus robustus)

NSW, ACT, , NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA (Distribution uncertain)

Ctenotus taeniolatus

NSW, ACT, Qld, Vic, ACT

Egernia cunninghami cunninghami

NSW, ACT, Qld, SA, Vic

Egernia saxatilis intermedia

NSW, ACT, Vic

Egernia striolata

NSW, ACT, Qld, SA, Vic

Eulamprus heatwolei

NSW, ACT, Vic, SA

Eulamprus kosciuskoi

NSW, ACT, Vic

Eulamprus quoyii

NSW, ACT, Qld, SA, Vic

*Southern Water-skink or Cool-temperate Water-skink

Eulamprus tympanum tympanum

NSW, ACT, Vic, SA

*Eastern Three-toed Earless Skink

Hemiergis talbingoensis talbingoensis (split from decresiensis)

Vic, NSW, ACT

*Grass Skink or Dark-flecked Garden Sunskink

Lampropholis delicata

NSW, ACT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic

Lampropholis guichenoti

NSW, ACT, Qld, SA, Vic

Lerista bougainvillii

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, ACT?

Mountain Skink

NSW, ACT, Vic, ACT

*White's Skink

Liopholis (was Egernia) whitii (includes skinks previously known as Egernia whitii tenobrosa)

NSW, ACT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic

Menetia greyii

NSW, ACT, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA

*South-eastern Morethia Skink

Morethia boulengeri

SKINKS OF AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (ACT)
(Canberra region only - excludes Jervis Bay Territory)

Listing of the Skinks
found in the
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (ACT)
(Canberra region only - excludes Jervis Bay Territory)

*Robust Striped Skink or Eastern Striped Skink
(Status uncertain)

Ctenotus robustus or Ctenotus spaldingi (Status uncertain)
( includes skinks previously known as Ctenotus borealis)

*Spalding's or Straight-browed Ctenotus
(Status uncertain)

NSW, ACT, , NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA
(Distribution uncertain)

*Southern Water-skink or
Cool-temperate Water-skink

Liopholis (was Egernia) whitii
(includes skinks previously known as Egernia whitii tenobrosa)