saiphos equalis

My wife found this lizard in the garden and panicked at it's wriggle type movement. It's unusual in movement to our commonly found skinks and was wondering what sort of skink it is.

Found this little guy in my garden today while cleaning up, and I'm just curious as to what he is. Located in Armidale NSW

can you keep these skinks in NSW cause i really like the look of them and they also are very interesting to watch as i found some up at my farm

Please note i am only 14 and one day want to be a herptologist and these photos where taken over a 3 day period hey guys just some herping photos from me :D just to let you know the animals in the containers in the photos where let go it was just to hard to capture them when they where on the...

So went herping on the weekend again. Just a few fairly common reptiles, photographed two of the little brown skinks because I needed better shots of them. Saiphos equalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr Lampropholis delicata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr Lampropholis delicata by Stephen...

found this skink in my back yard i think it is a three toed earless skink but not entirely sure.

Hey guy's, I work for telstra constantly opening telstra pits ive come across frog's, snakes and lizards but this one was something i have never seen before the picture is a little blurry but i will try to describe it as best as possible. He was really long had little legs a red belly and was...

Found this fellow and 2 of its mates amongst mums retaining wall today along with plenty of gravid legless lizards(orange bellied ones) and some skinks. He posed well for the set up photo:D before being released back into the scrub much to mums dissmay and protest. Sorry for the quality of the...

Well while you haven't seen a hundred threads, that doesn't mean I haven't been out frantically herping every night since my last thread. I've finally gotten some pictures of some snakes and a dodgy shot of a leaftail which I promised myself I would get before making this thread. So here we go...

After complaining on every threat of someone herping and actually finding stuff, i can now saw i have too. But this week end i wasn't even trying. On Saturday mum called me to tell me there were 3 green tree snakes curled up in a tree (i think they were mating) at the netball courts and they...

I was looking up some small skinks on the net and came across the South-Eastern Slider (Lerista bougainvillii) and saw that the ones that live on the mainland lay eggs and the ones that are found on the bass strait islands and kangeroo island give birth to live young. I find this extremly...

This is a question in regards to red bellies being ovoviviparious. All live bearing Australian elapids are in the Oxyuranus (taipan) group. The group is split into two sub groups Oxyuranus (tais alone) and Pseudechis (blacks and all other live bearers). All live bearing Australian elapids...

My mates neighbour popped her head over the fence yesterday to ask if he knew anyone who could remove a snake from her compost ASAP . She wanted it gone or dead and now ! He called a local snakeman and told him to please hurry he came out and began looking for the snake after a little while and...

I was bushwalking yesterday and spotted what at first i thought was a small snake, it was around 8inchs long, it slithered off like a snake when i got close to it, but then it un-tucked its legs and walked off once it realized i wasnt coming after it.. I think it was trying to mimic a snake...

Photographed August 2008, near Townsville, QLD I'm not 100% with my ID's on these skinks, other opinions welcome! please! :)

Just a couple of pictures of a nice looking Yellow-Faced Whip Snake that I came across yesterday. Also chasing an ID on the following skinks...both were found together. I think they are A. verreauxii but could possibly be A. leuckartii ...didn't think to count the toes.

Here are photos of various plants and animals from the Wollongong region. These photos were mostly taken from late summer to autumn. I have not been out all that much recently due to work commitments. A shot of typical habitat near Wollongong. The coastal forest is damp with eucalyptus...

Seeing its getting colder which leads to a decline in herping threads (plus I'm just bored on a Sunday night) I thought I'd throw up some pictures of the snakes I have photographed so far this year. Majority of pics have maybe been seen before. Cheers. Bandy Bandy Vermicella annulata Brown...

Hey, does anyone have a complete list of reptiles of australia that shows whether they lay or give birth, I just tried to find a list but was unsuccesful. thanks, Gecko75

Reptiles found within your fence line! How many are out there and we just don't notice them? Post your pics and let's start counting... A friend of mine found this big girl next to her back veranda the other day. After awhile, she captured and took her down the road to some bushland to let her...

Spring is here and on Friday, I heard the raucous calls of Channel-billed Cuckoos for the first time this season (see http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Channel-billed_Cuckoo_Sep07_kobble.jpg/580px-Channel-billed_Cuckoo_Sep07_kobble.jpg). This is a great time of the year...

Found this little guy under some firewood i was removing the other day,i forgot i had it on my phone.Not the best pic but some one may be able to identify it.

SCINCIDAE -- Skinks (Continued) This post will include photos of skinks only. It is the third of a series of four posts. EREMIASCINCUS -- "Sand-swimmers". A genus of 2 skinks that are widespread in the interior. They have glossy scales and are excellent burrowers. Broad-banded...

Hi,just went for my daily walk and i came across these fellas all the time,could someone please I.D it for me,also are these the ones that Bandy Bandy eats,thanx in advance..

Copied directly from my blog. --- Note: if you've seen the 2009 ReptilesDownUnder.com calendar, you might recognise some pictures here. We left The Warrumbungles in the morning and drove up to Girraween National Park, just across the border in Queensland. Despite it being quite close to...

Well the title isn't quite true, 1 from tonight, 1 from last monday night. Wont post any other pics as iv posted all the same species enough times. Tonght was one of the coldest crap nights we have had in a long time, yet i found my target species, a Bandy Bandy, yes, I know they are common...

This has been a good year so far for finding reptiles in Wollongong. Overall, the weather has been cool and fairly wet, but there have been enough warm days mixed in to bring out the snakes and lizards. Here are a few shots of Wollongong and the surrounding areas where I search. Wollongong...

Just some pics from a quick frogging trip through northern NSW. Conditions wern't that great surprisingly and despite the heavy rains most sites were fairly dry and cold. Still got a variety of herps however: Frogs: Assa darlingtoni Adelotus brevis Crinia parinsignifera Crinia signifera...

before you say "Where?" look here http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Kenilworth+QLD,+Australia&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FTY_av4dUHIaCQ&ll=-26.683969,152.451439&spn=0.214424,0.305214&z=12&iwloc=addr Left too late in the day to see much but did some rock turning and found a few Oedura tryoni...

Here are a few pics from areas near Wollongong. I visited the hills above Wollongong, Carrington Falls and Dharawal in the last couple of weeks. The weather has been pretty good with mostly warm days and a little rain. The hills above Wollongong are covered with wet eucalyptus woodland...

G'day everyone, I realise that I don't have much information to give here but I thought I'd try my luck anyway. My cousin says he has a small snake living in his garden. He says it's definitely not a python. It's about 1ft long so it's probably still a juvenile. It moves very fast and it...

some of you may have seen some of the pics already Here are a few photos of some of the stuff I have been finding this winter in our local area, have also put a few pics in of stuff I found at Sydney and at sunshine coast (didn’t have any time to go herping at both places, had a quick look at...

The last three days in Wollongong have been beautiful with mild temps (18-20C) and no wind. I have taken an extended lunch break each day and headed up into the hills to see what I could find. I know a spot in the hills with tin and other dumped rubbish so I examined this area and found the...

Here is the first of two posts of herps that I have seen near Wollongong, NSW, in the last three years. The habitat near Wollongong consists mostly of wet eucalyptus forest on the slopes of the escarpment with isolated patches of rainforest in some of the protected gullies. There is heath on...

Last Spring, I visited Dharawal Nature Reserve on several locations. This reserve is only about a 20 minute drive from Wollongong. It is a great place for frogs, lizards and flowers. In this post, I will include photos of reptiles and flowers and in the next post, the incredible frogs that I...

Hi I was doing some garding today and came across a lizard or skink i havent seen before i took a few photos and let him go but i cant connect camera to this computer so will get them put on disc tomorrow anyway here is a quick discription of it. It was under the soil burried it was a...

Photos taken last night in Riverhills (Brisbane, Western Suburbs) Was between 30 - 40cm long. What is it?

Hi all, well everyone seems to love an ID thread so here we go :) I just turned up this little fella while looking for grubs, I seem to find them fairly often in the garden. Sometimes they are jet black with dark red or orange bellies (and yes they have legs :p) Ive been looking through my...

GDAY, Myself and a group of dedicated herpers including Arthur White and Nephrurus (from this site) went to Smiths Lake near Seal Rocks with the Frog and Tadpole Study Group to look for frogs aswell as reptiles mammals and birds and all other creatures alike. The list is as follows: FROGS...

You proberly havn't heard of this guy before, they are very rare and are listed on the IUCN red list ( http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=5106 ). As you can see, these two are trying to take the species off the list

hey people, just thought i may put a game up that everyone can enjoy its the ABC game and each post has to name something related to herpotology starting from the letter A to Z for example: A for atherton tableland python or albino olive and B for bredli's python etc. Anyway ill start...