Paracontias tsararano

Paracontias tsararano is a species of skinks. It is endemic to Madagascar.The name is believed to have come from the Malagasy word "tsararano", meaning "good water".

Habitat

Paracontias tsararano is native to the Tsararano Forest in North-Eastern Madagascar. The skink lives mostly underground in burrows, with its diet consisting mainly of insects, such as flies, crickets and beetles. There is an estimated population of 235.