common garden skink pics

[noni]

hey all, just playing with the new camera and took a few shots of skinks in the backyard; would i be right in assuming these are the common garden variety? i've had a look in 'frogs & reptiles of the sydney region' by ken griffiths and i'm thinking they are either common garden or snake-eyed skinks.

anyway, i think they are sweet

(and before anyone asks its a canon power shot s5is)

 

[Luke1]

hey good shots, they are

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[angel]

nice pics, I am going to ask santa for a better cam this year so I can take some pic of cute things around my house

 

[pseudechis4740]

Other common name: Fence Skink. Definitely not Snake-eyed skinks Leiolopisma guichenoti

 

[noni]

hmmm... this book says fence and snake eyed skinks are the same thing? both cryptoblepharus virgatus?

 

[Luke1]

pseudechis4740: is a fence skink different to a snake eyed skink? i got the spelling off the NSW species list thing...

 

[pseudechis4740]

Yeah, the snake eyed skinks have copper colored head, a dark lateral stripe down the back (if present) and dark lateral stripes from the nostril to the hindlimbs.

 

[gonff]

if someone could tell me how to post pics, i'll post some of my garden skink pics for u.

 

[gonff]

pm me if u want plz, thnx a lot

 

[gonff]

these are my garden skinks

 

[noni]

aw they're cute

 

[JasonL]

The old common name mix up again... Well, here's my veiw Cryptoblepharus virgatus = Fence or Snake Eyed Skink, Lampropholis (Leiolopisma) guichenoti = Grass Skink, Lampropholis delicata = Garden Skink, they get refered as different common names in different literature.

 

[Veredus]

Are they on license gonff?

 

[JasonL]

a pic of L. guichenoti

 

[Veredus]

The old common name mix up again... Well, here's my veiw Cryptoblepharus virgatus = Fence or Snake Eyed Skink, Lampropholis (Leiolopisma) guichenoti = Grass Skink, Lampropholis delicata = Garden Skink, they get refered as different common names in different literature.

I happen to agree with this taxonomy, in fact I have never before heard of naming Lampropholis guichenoti as snake-eyed skink.

 

[gonff]

mine are lampropholis guichenoti, of that i'm sure(i did the reserch on them). i thought guichenoti WAS the garden skink, its also called ''pale-flecked garden sunskink"