#1776 · 🦎 reptiles

Elegant Snake-eyed Skink

Cryptoblepharus pulcher

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © sea-kangaroo · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Amber Brodie · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © John Sullivan · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Melbourne VIC, Australia:© Nigel Marsh · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Brisbane QLD, Australia:© Sylvia Felicity Ann Haworth · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Ship's Stern Circuit Binna Burra, Lamington National Park, Queensland:© Colin Meurk · CC BY-SA 4.0
7. VXPG+66 Heathcote National Park, Heathcote NSW 2233, Australia:© Taylor · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. New South Wales, AU:© squirrel_cheeks · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Brisbane QLD, Australia:© Mark Ayers · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. North Ipswich QLD 4305, Australia:© slugsandsnailsrock · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The elegant snake-eyed skink ( Cryptoblepharus pulcher ) is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. It is endemic to southern and eastern Australia.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,286iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).