#1808 · 🦎 reptiles

Blotched Bluetongue

🇳🇱 Gevlekte blauwtongskink ·Tiliqua nigrolutea

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The blotched blue-tongued lizard ( Tiliqua nigrolutea ), also known as the southern blue-tongued lizard or blotched blue-tongued skink is a blue-tongued skink endemic to south-eastern Australia. This animal has a fleshy blue tongue which is used to taste the air and scare off potential predators. It is a robust and relatively large member of the skink family (Scincidae) that tends to rely on camouflage and bluff as its primary means of defence. However, if cornered or molested,...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,142iNaturalist 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.
4,142 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Jean René Constant Quoy in 1824 (202 years ago).