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Named after the distinguishing feature of a ‘blue tongue’, the Centralian Blue Tongue Lizard (Tiliqua multifasciata) are the largest members of the skink family Scincidae. Australia has seven species of blue-tongued lizards.
The Centralian Blue Tongue, also known as the Central Blue-Tongue Skink is found throughout the semi-arid to arid red sand-plains, sand-dunes, stony hill spinifex regions, stretching from Western Australia, Northern Territory, far north South Australia and outback Central Queensland.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Order: Squamata
- Family: Scincidae
- Genus: Tiliqua
- Species: T. multifasciata
- Binomial name: Tiliqua multifasciata
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