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SpeciesScincidae
Reptiles

🦎Tiliqua rugosa

Tiliqua rugosa (Gray, 1825)

Tiliqua rugosa, most commonly known as the shingleback skink, shingleback lizard, bobtail lizard, and the two-headed skink ; is a short-tailed, slow-moving species of blue-tongued skink 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. rugosa asper, is the only one native to eastern Australia, where it goes by the common name of the eastern shingleback.

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≈ 1/50th of your weight
Also called
bobtail lizard, shingleback lizard
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2017.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
1.23 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
35 years
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Everything we know about the Tiliqua rugosa

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Body mass
1.23 kgmaximum recorded
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Maximum lifespan
35 yearsmaximum recorded
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Diet
Herbivorous
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Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Foraging mode
ACT
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Venomous
No
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Snout–vent length
0.35 mmaximum recorded
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By sex

  • Female0.26 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l
1.2 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Tiliqua rugosa yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyScincidae
  5. ›genusTiliqua
  6. ›speciesTiliqua rugosa
Full lineage
  1. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  2. infraorderScinciformata
  3. familyScincidae
  4. subfamilyEgerniinae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. infraorderScinciformata
  12. familyScincidae
  13. subfamilyEgerniinae
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In other languages
kurtafarkú szkink (hu), Tannenzapfenechse (de), Scinque rugueux (fr), マツカサトカゲ (ja), Pijnappelskink (nl), Scynk krótkoogonowy (pl) … and 15 more languages
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