1 Woodland Tussock-skink at Cotter River, ACT
Identification history
| Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii | 27 Jan 2021 | WillO | ||
| Lampropholis guichenoti | 26 Jan 2021 | SWishart |
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User's notes
At first sight, thought it was a mating pair until they untangled themselves and it was a dining pair. Starting to show breeding colours
1 comment
WillO
wrote:
27 Jan 2021
An interesting photograph. The two individuals doing the biting (with the first flush of breeding colour showing) are males - it could be that the third individual is also a male. Mating takes place in autumn in this species (P. entrecasteauxii) so the third individual is most likely also a male. They are exhibiting territorial behaviour, but unusually it is two on one. They seem to recover from these quite aggressive encounters.
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Location information
- Coordinates 148.781657-35.568045
- Altitude 1691.1m
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Cotter River, ACT
Sighting information
- 3 Abundance
- 26 Jan 2021 01:21 PM Recorded on
- SWishart Recorded by
Species information
- Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii Scientific name
- Woodland Tussock-skink Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 1996.1m Recorded at altitude
- 213 images trained Machine learning
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Synonyms
Leilopisma entrecasteauxii
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