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there is some pics of a nice little pink tongue i got while out having a look last night.
 
nice banding on her hey...all the toes and looking healthy
 
re Pink

God starve the lizard icey that is a nice pink tongue and a top photograph,well done :D
 
Pink-tongued Skink

I love this species. Hugely under-rated in my opinion.
They're actually a very interesting species.
Real specialists, only eating slugs & snails with a specialized enlarged tooth at the back of the jaw to help crush snail shells. Great residents for the garden.

This specimen is different from the Sydney specimens, which have relatively solid bands, even as adults.
Bands tend to break up in adults, as they do in Blue-tongues. They become increasingly marginal, sometimes appearing as double bands, like this one. But I've never seen one with such distinct double banding though. Very interesting!

In what area was it found :?:

Looks like an adult male to me.
Like Blue-tongues, the males have bigger, broader heads proportionately and more distinct bands compared to females.

Nice find!
 
re Pink

Yeh its a nice colored specimen zen,the last one i saw was dead on the road in the middle of hervey bay it had the brown banding on grey background,not as nice as ices.Bugger it was,i wanted to find one and we were walking back on the road from the rsl club and my brother picked it up and it looked OK but was crushed,oh well :roll:
 
zulu- thanks for that i do my best with me camera.
zen- u seem to know what ur talking about, how else can u tell the diff between male/ female?
 
have another look at the tail if u think it is an adult male.....
 
What about the tail? Are you talking about the fact it's slender? Or does something you see make you think it's a female?
 
i reckon, and i am no expert at all so I don't have to send anyone an invoice for my BS advice, that they would be like other Tilaqua where the female has a narrower arrowhead type head and a long thin tail that tapers from the back legs. The male has a thickness to the tail before it too tapers out and a head that is wider across the jaws. It is easy when you look at a few from a clutch and it was just my guess looking at one.

Keen eyes folks not letting me get away with that 'her' pronoun

Plus i am adding to my guess that it is a yearling and not yet an adult
 
That is a broad head, females have more slender heads, and pink tongues aren't in the genous Tiliqua anymore. As for the tail, all pink tongues have slender prehensile tails, but buy the looks of how thin that one is I'd say a young male, not a full grown adult.
 
Give us a break guys, none of you know what sex it is so keep the old wives tales to a minimun.
Some distinctive features of pinktongues, distinctive large head, long thin tail, banding varying from firm solid bands to no markings at all.
 
Pink-tongued Skink

The Pink-tongued Skink is the sole member of the genus Hemisphaeriodon, if you follow Hal Cogger's classification (therefore NPWS).

More recently Glenn Shea has placed this species in the genus Cyclodomorphus, commonly known as She-Oak Skinks or Slender Blue-tongues.

As Dicco mentioned, Pink-tongues were once placed in Tiliqua but it's significantly distinct from the 'true' Blue-tongues.

The one consistent zoological name is it's specific name gerrardii, and the common name of Pink-tongue. Though some hyphenate and some don't.



In my opinion, tail circumference is not a reliable feature to determine gender. At this time of year, coming out of brumation, fat reserves are depleted like this skinny fella.

Proportion is more reliable, as head size compared to snout-vent length does not change seasonally.
This boy appears to me to have a relatively big 'boof' head.

As Dicco said:-
...probably a male, large head in comparison to body, but if it's young who knows.


Iceman, we really need to know what length this specimen is (roughly) ? :?:

Could you also please tell us what area it's from (approx.) :?:



Thanks
 
I wouldnt put money either way yet, looks like an under-nourished juv, so who knows
 
I dont presume you mean s/v length iceman. Im in agreement with pike 1.
 
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