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Duminda Dissanayake, Nick Clemann

2022/2/13

Reptiles & Amphibians

29

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139-140

CFREPTILES & AMPHIBIANS Page 1 REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 29: 139–140 • 2022 139 Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. The Common Garden Skink, Lampropholis guichenoti (Duméril and Bibron 1839), is endemic to Australia and widely distributed in southeastern South Australia through Victoria and eastern New South Wales to southeastern Queensland (Cogger 2018). Adults reach approximately 50 mm SVL and complete tails are about 1.6 times the body length. This species reaches sexual maturity within one year of birth, females lay clutches of 1–5 eggs, and communal nesting is common (Shine 1999; Robertson and Coventry 2019). Herein, we report a case of tail bifurcation. During a field survey at 1430 h on 8 October 2018, we encountered a single L. guichenoti with a bifurcated tail …