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Scincomorpha is an infraorder and clade of lizards including skinks (Scincidae) and their close relatives. These include the living families Cordylidae (girdled lizards), Gerrhosauridae (plated lizards), and Xantusiidae (night lizards), as well as many extinct taxa.
This is a large species of terrestrial blue tongue measuring upwards of 60 centimetres in length and over 1 kilogram in mass. It has a stout body and short legs. [2] It is variable in color but generally has a banded pattern.
The northern blue-tongued skink (T. s. intermedia) is a subspecies of the common blue-tongued skink (T. s. scincoides).Similar to other blue-tongued lizards, the northern blue-tongued skink has very distinctive patterning.
The Tiliqua scincoides scincoides, or eastern blue-tongued lizard, is native to Australia.Its blue tongue can be used to warn off predators. In addition to flashing its blue tongue, the skink hisses and puffs up its chest to assert dominance and appear bigger when in the presence of its predators such as large snakes and birds.
Scincinae is a subfamily of lizards. The subfamily contains 33 genera, and the genera contain a combined total of 284 species, commonly called skinks.The systematics is at times controversial.
Centralian blue-tongued skink. Near Uluru, NT. 2005. The Centralian blue-tongued skink or Centralian blue-tongue (Tiliqua multifasciata) is a species of skink, [2] occurring predominantly in the far north-west corner of New South Wales, Australia. [3]
Blue-tongued skinks [2] comprise the Australasian genus Tiliqua, which contains some of the largest members of the skink family (Scincidae). They are commonly called blue-tongued lizards or simply blue-tongues or blueys in Australia or panana in Indonesia.
There are currently three subspecies of Tiliqua gigas, and many localities within each subspecies.One is T. gigas gigas (Schneider, 1801), in which there are the most and newest recognized localities including: Halmahera, Classic Indonesian, Sorong, Aru, Jayapura, Manokwari, and Ambon.