Shingleback Lizard
Tiliqua rugosa
- Class
- Reptile
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 9,025
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
Tiliqua rugosa, most commonly known as the shingleback skink, shingleback lizard, or bobtail lizard (often simply shingleback or bobtail); is a short-tailed, slow-moving species of blue-tongued skink (genus Tiliqua) endemic to Australia. Three of its four recognised subspecies are found in Western Australia, where the bobtail name is most frequently used. The fourth subspecies, T.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Tiliqua rugosa”.