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#1819 · 🦎 reptiles

Southern Water Skink

Eulamprus tympanum

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © Reiner Richter · CC BY-NC 4.0
  2. 2. © Reiner Richter · CC BY-NC 4.0
  3. 3. © Reiner Richter · CC BY-NC 4.0
  4. 4. © Reiner Richter · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  5. 5. © Reiner Richter · CC BY-NC 4.0
  6. 6. © Reiner Richter · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  7. 7. © Nicole Kearney · CC BY 4.0
  8. 8. © Jasmine Karu · CC BY-NC 4.0
Southern Water Skink, photo 1 of 8
1/8 © Reiner Richter · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The southern water skink ( Eulamprus tympanum ) is a medium-sized (maximum snout-vent length c. 100 mm) species of skink that is endemic to Australia. These skinks are found in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria as well as on Tasmania's Rodondo Island in the Bass Strait. They are viviparous, mating in spring, and giving birth to live young in mid to late summer.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 3,863iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

  • No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
  • 3,863 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
Southern Water Skink
Nederlands
Southern Water Skink
scientific name
Eulamprus tympanum
class
Reptilia
order
Squamata
family
Scincidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
3,863
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Scincidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 38483, Wikidata Q3019038, GBIF 2462672, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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