Species:

Hemiergis initialis

Southwestern Earless Skink

Subspecies I've seen:
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Southwestern Earless Skink
H. i. initialis
Subspecies:

Hemiergis initialis initialis

Southwestern Earless Skink

November 27, 2009
John Forrest National Park, Western Australia, Australia
Southwestern Earless Skink (Hemiergis initialis initialis)

This skink was the only lizard I saw in a couple of hours in the morning at Western Australia’s oldest National Park, which seems downright un-Australian. It was under a rock, and looked to me more like one or our local slender salamanders than a lizard.

I’ve written up an account of this three-week trip to Australia here.