According to Wilson and Swan*, whilst
rosei is extremely variable geographically, within populations and sexually; it is "typically brown above with narrow, ragged-edged dark dorsolateral stripes on body, reddish brown dorsolateral stripes on hips and tail and narrow dark ventrolateral stripes on tail. Backs of sthn pops are uniform or with scattered paler scales...The reddish brown hip stripe, most typical of ♀, is ill-defined in s."
In my opinion, these features are too vague or absent in this specimen, even considering the southern variations described, to be
Saproscincus rosei.
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A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Wilson & Swan, 2008.
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Head shape is to blunt for both spectabilis and challengeri for me and from those shots I cannot count the supralabials
Btw Patrick I hope pAin is your friend lol
Using snouts as a distinguishing criterion for these species is new to me Scott.
Is that your own observation or is it published somewhere?
P.S Scott - Yes, pain is my friend :lol:, but I've got a good feeling about this one.
I'm not convinced about
rosei, despite the snout criterion. Is that
all you've got?