#1672 · 🦎 reptiles

Common Bluetongue

🇳🇱 Gewone blauwtongskink ·Tiliqua scincoides

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Bill de Belin · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Amir Hamidy · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © hornet76 · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Melissa Bruton · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Bento_Box · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Thomas Mesaglio · CC BY 4.0
7. Kensington Park SA 5068, Australia:© Owen Gale · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Underdale SA 5032, Australia:© no rights reserved · CC0
9. Cook, AU-QL, AU:© herphendrie · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Humpty Doo NT 0836, Australia:© Kim McLachlan · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Tiliqua scincoides ( Common blue-tongued skink , common bluetongue ) is a species of skink in the genus Tiliqua . It is native to Australia as well as to the Tanimbar and Babar Islands in the Maluku Province of Indonesia.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 12,788iNaturalist 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.
12,788 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by John White in 1790 (236 years ago).