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Blotched Blue-tongued Lizard | Tiliqua nigrolutea |
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Blotched Blue-tongued Lizard
Image: 568×416 63KB
Date & Time: 26 October 2004 9:40
Place: Tremont, Dandenong Ranges National Park
Young Blue-tongue
Image: 640×416 80KB
Date & Time: 27 October 2007 8:45
Place: Belgrave South
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This is one of several similar genera,
which I didn't realize until searching for their scientific name a while back.
The other similar species appearing in Victoria is the Eastern Blue-Tongued Skink
Tiliqua scincoides scincoides, but this is unlikely to appear just south-east of Melbourne
and that one has a very banded pattern.
The Blotched Blue-tongue appears in much of Tasmania (except south-central), and on the mainland
from the south-east corner of South Australia through much of Victoria and into the hills
of south-eastern NSW and ACT, as shown in the distribution map.
It is an omnivore, its diet includes flowers, snails and caterpillars.
They are large skinks, growing to over 30cm long, and hibernate in winter.
I remember, growing up in the Dandenongs, finding them hibernating between sheets of corrugated iron.
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Blotched Blue-tongued Lizard
Young Blue-tongue