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Tiliqua scincoides (Australian blue-tongued lizard; Common Bluetongue, Eastern Bluetongue, Northern Bluetongue, Eastern Blue-Tongued Lizard)

Synonyms: Cyclodus boddaertii; Lacerta scincoides; Scincus crotaphomelas; Scincus tuberculatus; Tiliqua whitii

Wikipedia Abstract

Tiliqua scincoides is a species of skink in the genus Tiliqua, the blue-tongued skinks or blue-tongued lizards. It is native to Indonesia and Australia. This is a large terrestrial lizard measuring up to 40 centimeters long and 700 grams in weight. It has a stout body and short legs. It is variable in color but generally has a banded pattern. The tongue is blue-violet to cobalt blue in color. When threatened it may hiss and reveal its blue tongue, startling potential predators. It has strong jaws and can deliver a damaging bite. There are three subspecies:
View Wikipedia Record: Tiliqua scincoides

Infraspecies

Tiliqua scincoides chimaerea
Tiliqua scincoides intermedia (Northern blue-tongued skink)
Tiliqua scincoides scincoides (Eastern blue-tongued skink)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.087 lbs (493 g)
Birth Weight [1]  14 grams
Female Weight [2]  1.825 lbs (828 g)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Terrestrial
Litter Size [1]  10
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  27 years
Reproductive Mode [3]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  12 inches (31 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 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
♦ 4Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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