Four-toed earless skink

Four-toed earless skink
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Hemiergis
Species: H. peronii
Binomial name
Hemiergis peronii
(Gray, 1831)

The four-toed earless skink (Hemiergis peronii), also known as Peron's earless skink, the lowlands earless skink or the four-toed mulch skink, is a viviparous earless skink from southern Australia, especially coastal and subcoastal Western Australia, South Australia and western Victoria. It has an average snout-vent length of 8 cm.[1]

References

  1. "Lowlands Earless Skink". Australian Reptiles Online Database. Stewart Macdonald. 2011-08-06. Retrieved 2012-09-14.


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