Great Desert Skink

Great Desert Skink

Taxobox
name = Great Desert Skink
status = VU | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
familia = Scincidae
genus = "Egernia"
species = "E. kintorei"
binomial = "Egernia kintorei"
binomial_authority = Stirling & Zietz, 1893
synonyms =
The Great Desert Skink ("Egernia kintorei") is a species of skink in the Scincidae family.It is found only in Australia.

The great desert skink is a large lizard that grows up to 40 cm long and weigh up to 350 grams. The great desert skink has a reddish-tanned and smooth skin, with creamy-lemony flanks and yellow belly scales

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* Australasian Reptile & Amphibian Specialist Group 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/7040/all Egernia kintorei] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 20 July 2007.


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