#1705 · 🦎 reptiles

Dark-flecked Garden Sunskink

Lampropholis delicata

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The delicate skink , dark-flecked garden sun skink , garden skink or plague skink ( Lampropholis delicata ) is a skink of the subfamily Lygosominae, originally from Eastern Australia. In its native range, and in New Zealand, it is also known as the rainbow skink , a term that usually refers to the African Trachylepis margaritifera , also a member of the Lygosominae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,735iNaturalist 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).