REPTILES OF MAGNETIC ISLAND
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From small skinks to visiting crocodiles the list of reptiles on and around Magnetic Island is extensive:
SNAKES Amethystine python (Australian form) Simalia kinghorni Black-striped snake Cryptophis nigrostriatus Black-headed python Aspidites melanocephalus Brown tree snake Boiga irregularis Coastal taipan Oxyuranus scutellatus Carpet python Morelia spilota Collared whipsnake Demansia torquata Common death adder Acanthophis antarcticus Eastern brown snake Pseudonaja textilis Freshwater snake Tropidonophis mairii Greater black whipsnake Demansia papuensis Green tree snake Dendrelaphis punctulatus Lesser black whipsnake Demansia vestigiata Little file snake Acrochordus granulatus Orange-naped snake Furina ornata Spine-bellied sea snake Hydrophis curtus Spotted python Antaresia maculosa Yellow-naped snake Furina barnardi Water python Liasis fuscus SKINKS & GECKOS Atherton Tableland mulch-skink Glaphyromorphus mjobergi Black-backed yellow-lined ctenotus Ctenotus eutaenius Blue-throated rainbow-skink Carlia rhomboidalis Bynoe's gecko Heteronotia binoei Coastal snake-eyed skink Cryptoblepharus litoralis litoralis Dark-flecked garden sunskink Lampropholis delicata Dubious dtella Gehyra dubia Elegant rainbow skink Carlia decora Fine-spotted mulch-skink Glaphyromorphus punctulatus Fire-tailed skink Morethia taeniopleura House gecko Hemidactylus frenatus Lesueur's velvet gecko Amalosia lesueurii Magnetic Island dwarf skink Pygmaeascincus sadlieri Major skink Bellatorias frerei Metallic snake-eyed skink Cryptoblepharus metallicus Orange-flanked rainbow skink Carlia rubigo Red-throated rainbow-skink (Superseded) Carlia rubrigularis sensu lato Robust rainbow-skink Carlia schmeltzii Saxicoline sunskink Lampropholis mirabilis Shaded-litter rainbow-skinkCarlia munda Stout bar-sided skink Concinnia sokosoma Straight-browed ctenotus Ctenotus spaldingi Striped snake-eyed skink Cryptoblepharus virgatus Tree-base litter-skink Lygisaurus foliorum Tussock rainbow-skink Carlia vivax Zig-zag gecko Amalosia rhombifer Ocellated velvet gecko (Superseded) Oedura monilis sensu lato Cryptoblepharus virgatus sensu lato (Superseded) Carlia pectoralis sensu lato (Superseded) MONITORS & LIZARDS Black-tailed monitor Varanus tristis Burton's legless lizard Lialis burtonis Eastern blue-tongued lizard Tiliqua scincoides Excitable delma Delma tincta Frilled lizard Chlamydosaurus kingii Lace monitor Varanus varius Rusty monitor Varanus semiremex Sand monitor Varanus gouldii Striped-tailed delma Delma labialis Tommy roundhead Diporiphora australis Yellow-spotted monitor Varanus panoptes Diporiphora sp. TURTLES Cann's longneck turtle Chelodina canni Chelodina sp. Krefft's river turtle Emydura macquarii krefftii Green turtle Chelonia mydas Hawksbill turtle Eretmochelys imbricata Flatback turtle Natator depressus Estuarine crocodile Crocodylus porosus |
(Photo: Tim Hempstead)
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PROTECTING RARE AND ENDANGERED REPTILES
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One of the many reasons why MINCA manage the Bolger Bay Conservation Park, is to preserve the habitat for vulnerable and rare reptiles. These include:
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