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Techmarscincus
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Techmarscincus

The Bartle Frere skink (Techmarscincus jigurru) is a rare and endangered skink lizard first discovered in 1981. This skink is agile and energetic. It has a rainbow sheen color. Their bodies are long and flat with short limbs and a very long tail. The Bartle Frere is only seen out and basking during the day. A night, the skink retreats back into the cracks in the exposed granite. The Bartle Frere skink tolerates juveniles in the...

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1 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species

Bartle Frere Coolskink

speciesTechmarscincus jigurru

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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 318368.