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Venezuelan Mountain Skink
Orosaura nebulosylvestris
The Venezuelan mountain skink (Orosaura nebulosylvestris) is a reptile, a member of the skink family, Scincidae. It is monotypic in the genus Orosaura.
From the article Venezuelan mountain skink on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
This genus is characterized by two or four frontoparietal (rarely five or six), one row of nuchals, 48-56 dorsals, 27-38 ventrals, (these counts were by different methods, dorsolateral stripes, a dark lateral stripe, and dark ventral striping. Orosaura has what appears to be a pair of irregular, dark nape stripes or lines of spots immediately adjacent to the pale dorsolateral stripes. The maximum body size for this species is 97 mm. This species is less prone to decline due to their relatively wide range.
Wikipedia: “Anatomy”
Range & habitat
They are distributed throughout the highlands of the Venezuelan coastal range and the Andean Cordillerea of Mérida. The species is found in open areas at the edges of cloud forest, shrubby vegetation of subparamos, and rural gardens.
Wikipedia: “Range and distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 146317.