:''"Metallic skink" may also refer to the garden skink (
Lampropholis delicata)''.
''Carinascincus metallicus'', the metallic cool-skink or metallic skink is a species of
skink
Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae, a family in the infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different taxonomic genera, the family Scincidae is one of the most diverse families of lizards. S ...
in the family
Scincidae. It is endemic to
Australia, found in southern
Victoria, as well as in
Tasmania
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where it is the most widespread and common lizard, occurring on many offshore islands in
Bass Strait
Bass Strait () is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria, with the exception of the land border across Boundary Islet). The strait provides the most direct wat ...
as well as the mainland. It gives birth to live young. It is highly variable in colour and pattern, and may be a complex of closely related species.
[Cogger, H.G. (1979). ''Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia''. Reed: Sydney. ]
References
Carinascincus
Skinks of Australia
Endemic fauna of Australia
Reptiles described in 1874
Taxa named by Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
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