Cape Melville shade skink

Saproscincus saltus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Saproscincus
Species: S. saltus
Binomial name
Saproscincus saltus
Hoskin, 2013

The Cape Melville shade skink, Saproscincus saltus, is a species of lizard from the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, described in 2013.[1][2][3] It was one of three vertebrates discovered by scientists from James Cook University and National Geographic in an area of mountain rainforest in North Queensland.[2] The lizards are active by day, running and jumping through the mossy boulder fields of Northern Queensland. [2]

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