🦎Tiliqua rugosa
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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IUCN Red List assessment, 2017.
- 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
Everything we know about the Tiliqua rugosa
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass1.23 kgmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan35 yearsmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietHerbivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeACTReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousNoReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Snout–vent length0.35 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female0.26 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
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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.
Family tree
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderScinciformata
- familyScincidae
- subfamilyEgerniinae
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderScinciformata
- familyScincidae
- subfamilyEgerniinae
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