Can anyone help me please...is this a skink?

[nicola]

Hi,can anyone tell me if this is a skink,i brought it 2 days ago and the reptile shop owner said it was a plated lizard but it looks like a major skink to me,it is very aggressive too.

Kind Regards

 

[Lonewolf]

i just did a google and it looks like a major skink to me

 

[Dicco]

There's a couple of skinks that look like that, I doubt it's a major skink, they're generally darker and not so mottled. Looks a bit like a King Skink, another Egernia sp, they can be pretty cranky. What did you put it down as on your licence?

 

[TWENTY B]

skink, yes 100%
but what kind of skink, a little harder

 

[SlothHead]

Hang on i am obviously missing something here, if you purchased it from a pet shop, or purchased it in general, wouldnt you therefore require a license and transfer papers, thus the species name should be on those papers.

 

[nicola]

All we had to do at the petshop was sign a form for the RSPCA that had the species as Plated lizard, which I was sceptical of, hence the detective work currently underway to find out what it is.

Perhaps in the UK we dont have licences. Ive bought a snake from a different pet shop and we didnt even sign the RSPCA thing just handed over the money and got a receipt.

Anyway thanks for your help..it looks very similar to a Major skink from what i can tell, but now i'm of to check what the King skink looks like. many thanks.

 

[JasonL]

Never seen anything like that in Aust myself. Nice looking lizard though.

 

[Retic]

Looks like a Schneiders Skink, an African species.

 

[Australis]

.. too quick

 

[Australis]

What do Egernia frerei from PNG look like?

 

[Australis]

Seems they look similar to yours
well.. in Germany at least.
Egernia, Animal Paradies, Lüneburg

 

[nicola]

Major Skink
Fitzroy Island

These 2 links made me think major skink and they live in aust and new guinea

 

[eipper]

Looks like an Irian Jayan Bellatoris (Egernia) frerei, Major Skink.

Cheers,
Scott

 

[JasonL]

Well that would explain it... it's head screamed Egernia but the colouration had me scratching my head. Thats one Ball Tearing Major!. Here's a crappy pic of an wild Australian (North Queensland) E. frerei I found last Jan... looks nothing like your one colour wise.

 

[beefa270]

could be the flash on the camera making it lighter perhaps...

 

[JasonL]

could be the flash on the camera making it lighter perhaps...

No, it would look like that, there is quite alot of variation between different populations within the same country let alone a different one.