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Blue-tailed Snake-eyed Skink
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IUCN EW · Extinct in the wild

Blue-tailed Snake-eyed Skink

Cryptoblepharus egeriae

Cryptoblepharus egeriae, the blue-tailed skink, is a species of skink, a lizard native to Australia's Christmas Island, and is not closely related to the Plestiodon skinks of North America, whose juveniles are known for their blue tails. It is relatively small with a black body with yellow stripes going to a bright blue tail.

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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 37170.