REPTILIA: SQUAMATA: SCINCIDAE: Eugongylus

Eugongylus albofasciolatus (Günther, 1872) 

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Photo & text by Dr. Robert Sprackland.

Range: The Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Moluccas, and Australia's Cape York Peninsula.

Diagnosis: A slender-bodied skink  with small limbs that do not meet hen adpressed. Differs from the only other species in the genus (Eugongylus rufescens) in having a pointed (not blunt) snout and more than 32 rows of scales around the midbody.

Description: Grows to a snout-vent length of 16 cm / 6.25 inches.

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 Literature:  

McCoy, Michael. 1980. Reptiles of the Solomon Islands. Wau Ecology Institute Handbook No. 7, 80 pp.