Tiliqua scincoides
(Common Blue-tongue, Eastern Blue-tongue Lizard)
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FAMILY |
Scincidae |
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Species |
Tiliqua scincoides |
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Common name |
Common Blue-tongue, Eastern Blue-tongue Lizard |
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Main colour |
Silvery-grey to brown |
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Body size |
Snout to vent 30 cm, tail to 22cm |
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Location |
Townsville |
Description
This large lizard is found in a variety of habitats where it forages on a variety of insects, flowers and fruits. Sleeps in hollow logs and amongst debris. It has a broad fat body, variable in colour but chiefly silvery-grey to brown with irregular darker bands, belly is paler. Slow moving, when cornered they hiss and display the large flat blue-tongue characteristic of the genus