Skink ID help

[Oriolus]

Greetings people! I snapped this photo of a skink on my garden hose (located in Townsville) this morning and I haven't had much luck positively IDing it. I'm hoping one of you guys can nail it down for me. Here it is:

 

[Bax155]

I was going to say Amax Rainbow Skink ( Carlia amax ) till I checked there locality now I'm stumped, I think it is a type of carlia, interesting to see what it actually is!!

 

[jordo]

The 4 fingers, 5 toes indicates it's a Carlia. No experience with these guys but it looks like Carlia storri to me, or rubringularis but it's hard to see the scales properly?

 

[Oriolus]

^^Thanks, thats what I was leaning towards, is Carlia storri, and yeh, not a particularly sharp photo unfortunately.

 

[Palex134]

Lampropholis delicata? if not, then definitely a Carlia species, possibly C. foliorum?



I'm in Townsville as well.

 

[moloch05]

Carlia skinks are a difficult group and often cannot be positively identified without a key. I am not certain, but the skink might be a Carlia storri. Here is one from Mission Beach:

... I don't think that it is a C. rubrigularis. Here are females of that species from Mission Beach:

... I don't think C. folorium. This one is from southern QLD:

Juveniles of other species such as C. vivax are also a possibility.

Regards,
David