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Christmas Island Whiptail-skink
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IUCN EX · Extinct

Christmas Island Whiptail-skink

Emoia nativitatis

The Christmas Island forest skink (Emoia nativitatis), also known as the Christmas Island whiptail skink, was a species of skink endemic to Australia's Christmas Island. As of 2017, it is listed as Extinct on the IUCN Red List. The last known forest skink, a captive individual named Gump, died on 31 May 2014.

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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 38537.