Red-tailed soil-crevice skink
The red-tailed soil-crevice skink '', also known commonly as Kinghorn's grassland striped skink and Kinghorn's snake-eyed skink, is a species of skink, a lizard in the subfamily Eugongylinae of the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia.
Etymology
The specific name, kinghorni, is in honour of Australian herpetologist James Roy Kinghorn.
Description
A. kinghorni may attain a snout-to-vent length of. Dorsally, it is tan or greyish, with dark brown spots forming lines that may be indistinct. Ventrally, it is tan or greyish. The tail is red, either dull or bright. The interparietal scale is not fused to the frontoparietals.
A. kinghorni is found in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland, and in the Northern Territory.
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat of A. kinghorni is tussock grassland with cracking soil.
Reproduction
A. kinghorni is oviparous.