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#1658 · 🦎 reptiles

Common Sun Skink

Eutropis multifasciata

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © abdel1980 · CC BY-NC 4.0
  2. 2. © wcyongwc · CC BY-NC 4.0
  3. 3. © budak · CC BY-NC 4.0
  4. 4. © Scott Loarie · CC0
  5. 5. © pedalinggal · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  6. 6. © Lip Kee · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Common Sun Skink, photo 1 of 7
1/7 © abdel1980 · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Eutropis multifasciata , commonly known as the East Indian brown mabuya , many-lined sun skink , many-striped skink , common sun skink or (ambiguously) as golden skink , is a species of skink.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 15,353iNaturalist observations
  • weight 10.9 gadult, up to
  • length 10.4 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.
  • 15,353 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Weighs only about 11 g.
  • About 10 cm long.

fact sheet

English
Common Sun Skink
scientific name
Eutropis multifasciata
class
Reptilia
order
Squamata
family
Scincidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
15,353
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
10.9 g
length
10.4 cm
lifespan
—

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

relatives· Scincidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 38008, Wikidata Q581692, GBIF 2460886, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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