Weird Looking "Female Northern"

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Weird Looking "Female Northern"

Postby Musoke » Wed May 25, 2011 8:42 am

I was looking around on Kijiji and found an ad selling a "female northern blue tongue skink" in Ontario.

...Part zebra?

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The tail looks northern, right? But she doesn't look like any other northern I've ever seen. :puzzled:
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Postby Katrina » Wed May 25, 2011 9:10 am

Northerns don't have strong, distinct banding on their tails - instead, they should be very speckly (sometimes young Northerns are a bit of an exception to this).

Very interesting looking skink. The bits of white along the bands on the back look scincoides , but seeing as this skink is in Ontario I'd be inclined to call it IJ or IJ x something. I'd love to see more pictures (and I'm no expert IDing these guys, that is just my guess!).

Good photo for discussion!
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Postby Bird_Brain » Wed May 25, 2011 9:23 am

To me it looks ij
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Postby MissMeg » Wed May 25, 2011 10:28 am

I love Kijiji. You always find something unexpected lol
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Postby Coomassie » Wed May 25, 2011 11:12 am

Not being very good at IDing, take this with a grain of salt but I don't think that is a Northern. I guess an IJ? Maybe?
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Postby Musoke » Wed May 25, 2011 11:30 am

These are the other pictures, there was also one of the tank but you could barely see her in it.

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Postby Fatal_S » Wed May 25, 2011 11:48 am

Yup, awesome IJ, very classic IMO. I'm fascinated by the second band, where the background color goes past the outline and into where it would normally be all brown banding. Very neat looking.

Also, obviously I can't be sure, but I'd guess male.
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Postby xxmonitorlizardxx » Wed May 25, 2011 12:37 pm

I would have though IJxnorthern
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Postby Alioop » Wed May 25, 2011 1:18 pm

I'm with ML, looks like IJ x Northern to me with that striping going on in the bands.
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Most definitely

Postby Ectothermicfauna » Thu May 26, 2011 12:52 am

I'll share a story. Rescued a male IJ from a guy that had him in with another male classic northern. Seperated the two, and two months later "he" had 5 babies, all looked just like that. In my experience that is definitely NorthernXIj cross. pretty mongrels though.
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Re: Most definitely

Postby Musoke » Thu May 26, 2011 7:40 am

Ectothermicfauna wrote:I'll share a story. Rescued a male IJ from a guy that had him in with another male classic northern. Seperated the two, and two months later "he" had 5 babies, all looked just like that. In my experience that is definitely NorthernXIj cross. pretty mongrels though.


That's pretty cool, thanks for sharing!
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Postby SapphireTigress1 » Thu May 26, 2011 11:20 pm

well, whatever it is, he/she is adorable and verrrry pretty!
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