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Mourning Skinks
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Mourning Skinks

Lissolepis

Lissolepis is a genus of mid-sized skinks (adult snout-vent length 100–130 mm) with a bulky angular body and small eyes. 20–28 rows of midbody scales; dorsal scales smooth. The nasal scale has a postnarial groove; the subocular scale row is complete. Eyelids similar in colour to the adjacent scales. They were previously placed in the genus Egernia.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Eastern Mourning Skink

speciesLissolepis coventryi

Western Mourning Skink

speciesLissolepis luctuosa

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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 89567.