Endangered
Alpine she-oak skink
Cyclodomorphus praealtus
The alpine she-oak skink also known as the alpine she-oak slender bluetongue is an endangered species of lizard in the family Scincidae and is endemic to the Australian Alps.
Appearance
The alpine she-oak skink is a medium-sized lizard with a maximum body length of 116 millimetres (4.6 in) from snout to vent (excluding the tail.) The alpine she-oak skink also known as the alpine she-oak slender bluetongue is an endangered species of lizard in the family Scincidae and is endemic to the Australian Alps.
Range and habitat
The alpine she-oak skink also known as the alpine she-oak slender bluetongue is an endangered species of lizard in the family Scincidae and is endemic to the Australian Alps.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Most skinks forage in leaf litter or under cover. Burrowing species slip through sand or soil more than they climb.
In crisis
The alpine she-oak skink is listed as 'Endangered' on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 of New South Wales and as 'critically endangered' on the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 of Victoria.
Alpine she-oak skink is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Alpine she-oak skink, Wikidata item Q3008483. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
