#1736 · 🦎 reptiles

Pale-flecked Garden Sunskink

🇳🇱 Common Garden Skink ·Lampropholis guichenoti

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Yingyod Lapwong · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Reiner Richter · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Faye Todd · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Matt Campbell · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Torbjorn von Strokirch · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Pete Woodall · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © David McCorquodale · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The common garden skink or pale-flecked garden sunskink ( Lampropholis guichenoti ) is a species of small common skink endemic to Australia.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,802iNaturalist 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.
6,802 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by André Marie Constant Duméril in 1839 (187 years ago).