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Red-tailed Soil-crevice Skink
Austroablepharus kinghorni
The red-tailed soil-crevice skink (Austroablepharus kinghorni), also known commonly as Kinghorn's grassland striped skink and Kinghorn's snake-eyed skink, is a species of skink, a lizard in the subfamily Eugongylinae of the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia.
From the article Red-tailed soil-crevice skink on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
A. kinghorni may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 4.5 cm (1.8 in). Dorsally, it is tan or greyish, with dark brown spots forming lines that may be indistinct. Ventrally, it is tan or greyish. The tail is red, either dull or bright. The interparietal scale is not fused to the frontoparietals.
Range & habitat
A. kinghorni is found in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland, and in the Northern Territory.
Wikipedia: “Geographic range”
In human culture
The specific name, kinghorni, is in honour of Australian herpetologist James Roy Kinghorn.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 964807.