Common Skink or Keeled Indian Mabuya (Eutropis carinata)
Skink is a very small ground-dwelling lizard easily recognized by its glossy scales. It has enlarged symmetrical shields on the head, a broad flat tongue and movable eyelids. The small limbs and elongated body gives it the appearance of snakes. Skink is striped, cross-barred or spotted and lacks the ability to change colour but the male skinks acquire red or orange hues during the breeding season. These skinks are the most common lizards of the world with over six hundred species. About half the species of the skinks lay eggs, and the rest of them bear living young. These reptiles are generally insectivorous. In India there are about thirty eight species of thirteen genera, ranging in size from the four centimetres long Ristella travancorica to the forty five centimetres long Mabuya tytleri.
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Location: Gautala Wildlife Sanctuary, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India
Photo credit: © Zeeshan Mirza / Alamy / Afripics
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