ReptilesCentral Netted Dragon Ctenotus leonhardii Ctenotus saxatilis Crocodile Geckos Gidgee Skink Goanna, Monitor, Perentie Inland Bearded Dragon Lined Firetail Skink Long-nose Dragon Serpentes Thorny Devil Yellow-Bellied Water Skink (Eulamprus heatwolei)
The Yellow-Bellied Water Skink (Eulamprus heatwolei) is a golden brown (above) in colour with numerous black flecks, with the adult abdomen and thighs often a bright yellow and some may have a pink throat. Others will be whitish underneath, with black blotches on the throat and chin. Sometimes they may have a pale dorsolateral line from eye to forelimb
The Yellow-bellied Water Skink have a preference for rocky open habitats and usually near water, and can be found in places like along the inland slopes of the Great Dividing Range. They are found in wet and dry forests, bogs, open woodlands and heathlands.
The water skink are omnivores and feed on invertebrates, small vertebrates and occasionally fruit. They are not active in winter, and will emerge in early spring. The females can give birth up to eight live young.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
- Informal: Gnathostomata
- Class: Reptilia
- Subclass: Lepidosauria
- Order: Squamata
- Suborder: Lacertilia
- Family: Scincidae
- Genus: Eulamprus
- Species: Eulamprus heatwolei
Footnote & References
- Photographs Yellow-Bellied Water Skink (Eulamprus heatwolei) © Deb Taylor
- Eulamprus heatwolei Wells & Wellington, 1984, Yellow-Bellied Water Skink, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/1df8a2c5-288f-4160-ab01-aa94b18f2db3
- Yellow-Bellied Water Skink (Eulamprus heatwolei), debtaylor142, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?place_id=6744&subview=map&taxon_id=38492&user_id=debtaylor142
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