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The Solomon Islands skink is the world's largest species of extant skink; adults can reach a total length (including tail) of 32 inches (81 cm) when fully grown, with the tail accounting for more than half this length. [14] The Solomon Islands skink has a long, slender body, strong, short legs, and a triangular shaped head with small round eyes ...
Acontias plumbeus, the giant legless skink or giant lance skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. [2] It is found in South Africa , Eswatini , Mozambique , and Zimbabwe . Acontias plumbei live in seasonally dry savanna, woodland humus, and forest floor leaf litter throughout South Africa ranging from Eastern Cape to Zimbabwe.
Most skinks, though, are medium-sized, with snout-to-vent lengths around 12 cm (4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in), although some grow larger; the Solomon Islands skink (Corucia zebrata) is the largest known extant species and may attain a snout-to-vent length of some 35 cm (14 in).
The largest legless lizard this family is the common scaly-foot (Pygopus lepidopodus) with a length of 70 cm (28 in), [129] a SVL of 24 cm (9.4 in) [130] with a weight of 225.95 g (7.970 oz) [131] and also the largest legless lizard in Australia [129] and biggest in the world overall, if don't counts some members the family Anguidae.
The Merauke blue-tongued skink (Tiliqua gigas evanescens), also known as the faded blue-tongued skink, or giant blue-tongued skink, is a subspecies of Tiliqua that is native to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. [1] The Merauke blue-tongued skink is the longest of all the Tiliqua species; often reaching nearly 26-30 inches (66–76 cm) in total ...
Kishinoue's giant skink (Plestiodon kishinouyei), also known as the Japanese skink, [1] is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae, endemic to the southern Ryukyu Islands of Japan. The species name is a tribute to Japanese fisheries biologist Kamakichi Kishinouye (岸上 鎌吉, 1867–1929).
The Great Plains skink, together with the broad-headed skink, is the largest skink of the genus Plestiodon. It reaches a length of 9 to 13 cm from snout to vent (SVL) or up to nearly 34 cm total length (including the tail). This lizard is light gray or beige in color; its dorsal scales have black or dark brown edges. The scales on the sides run ...
The chevron skink was first described in 1906 as Lygosoma homalonotum by George Albert Boulenger based on a single specimen from Great Barrier Island. [3] [4] As the museum type specimen was mislabelled as coming from Flat Island in the Mokohinau group, the species was not located again until 70 years later, when Graham S. Hardy found 13 specimens on Great Barrier Island. [4]