#1773 · 🦎 reptiles

Longtail Mabuya

🇳🇱 Langstaartskink ·Eutropis longicaudata

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © W. K. Lo · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Roderic Page · CC BY 4.0
3. © asesame · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Thomas Brown · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Thomas Brown · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © vivi1874 · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 香港大欖:© K. REN · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. MFQ7+C4V, Ban Phue, Ban Phue District, Udon Thani 41160, Thailand:© Navapol Komanasin · CC BY 4.0
9. สถาบันการจัดการปัญญาภิวัฒน์อีอีซี, สัตหีบ, จ.ชลบุรี, TH:© chomnapha · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 香港仔郊野公园, 香港仔, HK:© dr_jiang · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Longtail Mabuya or Long-tailed Sun Skink is a species of skink. It is found in China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and possibly in Cambodia. Some populations have been found to exhibit paternal care in response to predation by egg-eating snakes.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,340iNaturalist observations
weight 12.4 gadult, up to
length 11 cmadult, up to
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.
5,340 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 12 g.
About 11 cm long.
Scientifically named by Edward Hallowell in 1857 (169 years ago).