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Identification of this Australian skink
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 6:33 am
by Dood
They say it is a Shingle Back Skink but im not so sure
I found the picture on this forum
http://www.reptilescanada.com/showthrea ... Wales-Pics when doing an image search for "melanistic skink"
Re: Identification of this Australian skink
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 11:08 am
by NickBrahz
It does look like a singleback skink but can they even be that colour?
Re: Identification of this Australian skink
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 11:21 am
by splashy07
Looks like a bit of photoshop to me....
Re: Identification of this Australian skink
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:01 pm
by Richard.C
not photo shopped guys,its a rugosa aspera,some of the south east populations on west of the great dividing range are predominantly to entirely black
Re: Identification of this Australian skink
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:20 pm
by NickBrahz
Richard.C wrote:not photo shopped guys,its a rugosa aspera,some of the south east populations on west of the great dividing range are predominantly to entirely black
Really? dam that is awesome if i ever ran into that fellow i would be taking a million pictures not just the one
Re: Identification of this Australian skink
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 6:34 am
by Dood
Wow! Thanks Richard
When I saw it as a tiny thumbnail I thought it was a life-like photoshopped image of "Toothless" from the "How to Train your Dragon" series
That is one AWESOME looking skink !!
And once again you Aussies are hoarding all the good stuff
Re: Identification of this Australian skink
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 9:35 am
by NickBrahz
Dood wrote:And once again you Aussies are hoarding all the good stuff
Yeah we tell the world that its dangerous to live here and everything wants to kill you but in secret we just use that as a cover to keep and hide the awesome reptiles, i mean this Rugosa Aspera is super duper dangerous it has enough venom to kill 3845 adults so you don't want it we will look after him instead.
Re: Identification of this Australian skink
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 10:52 am
by Dood
You can keep your brown snakes and funnel web spiders but please ship me a few melanistic shingle backs hiding in a wombats pouch
Re: Identification of this Australian skink
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2015 7:04 am
by splashy07
Ditto, Dood. I'll take a truckload of 'em even if they carry more venom than a Gaboon viper...
I've seen all black ones but the shape of the head and a few other characteristics just throw me off a bit, but not
going to argue with an Aussie!
Re: Identification of this Australian skink
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 7:20 am
by mark_w
splashy07 wrote:Ditto, Dood. I'll take a truckload of 'em even if they carry more venom than a Gaboon viper...
I've seen all black ones but the shape of the head and a few other characteristics just throw me off a bit, but not
going to argue with an Aussie!
Very cool skink. Saw a pair of these yesterday at Hamm.
Mark
Re: Identification of this Australian skink
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:52 am
by Dood
mark_w wrote:splashy07 wrote:Ditto, Dood. I'll take a truckload of 'em even if they carry more venom than a Gaboon viper...
I've seen all black ones but the shape of the head and a few other characteristics just throw me off a bit, but not
going to argue with an Aussie!
Very cool skink. Saw a pair of these yesterday at Hamm.
Mark
what were they going for????
Re: Identification of this Australian skink
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:24 pm
by Scotts1au
Black asperas are quite common pet shop fodder. Quite common in inland nsw, there are s few well known grey nomad hangouts where they hand feed them. My parents have some great videos if hand feeding and being descended on by lots of them.