Sandfish skink, common sandfish or common skink, Scincus scincus. With large succulent plant, mosque and minaret in the background. Le scinque, Scincus officinalis. Handcoloured steel engraving by Alexandre Manceau after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Bernard Germain de Lacepede’s Histoire Naturelle de Lacepede, comprenant les cetaces, les quadrupedes ovipares, les serpents et les poissons, Furne et Cie, Paris, 1847.

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