Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Scincidae > Cryptoblepharus > Cryptoblepharus virgatus

Cryptoblepharus virgatus (Cream-striped Shinning-skink, Wall Skink)

Synonyms: Ablepharus boutoni pulcher (heterotypic); Ablepharus virgatus

Wikipedia Abstract

The fence or snake-eyed Skink (Cryptoblepharus virgatus) is a skink commonly found in southern and eastern Australia. Its habitats include urban areas, woodlands and grasslands. Will often be seen on vertical surfaces such trees, fences and walls. It is an active little lizard, and if threatened will often play dead to confuse the attacker.
View Wikipedia Record: Cryptoblepharus virgatus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  .6 grams
Female Weight [2]  1 grams
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal, Saxicolous
Litter Size [2]  2
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  1.575 inches (4 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Fitzgerald River National Park II 732417 Western Australia, Australia
Girraween National Park II 28978 Queensland, Australia
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site   Queensland, Australia
Stirling Range National Park II 281371 Western Australia, Australia

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Southwest Australia Australia No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

Predators

Hoplocephalus bungaroides (Broad-headed Snake)[4]
Suta spectabilis (Spectacled Hooded Snake, Bush’s Hooded Snake)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Eimeria jamescooki <Unverified Name>[6]
Isospora cryptoblephari <Unverified Name>[6]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
♦ 4Ecological characteristics of a threatened snake species, Hoplocephalus bungaroides (Serpentes, Elapidae), Jonathan K. Webb and Richard Shine, Animal Conservation (1998) 1, 185–193
♦ 5Food Habits and Reproductive Biology of Small Australian Snakes of the Genera Unechis and Suta (Elapidae), RICHARD SHINE, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 307-315, 1988
♦ 6Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0