| White’s Skink | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Egernia |
| Species: | E. whitii |
| Binomial name | |
| Egernia whitii (Lacépède, 1804) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Lygosoma moniligera Duméril & Bibron, 1839 |
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White's Skink (Egernia whitii) is a species of skink in the Scincidae family. It is found in south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania and many Bass Strait islands. It is slow-growing, to a maximum length of about 90 mm, and may take four years to reach maturity. It gives birth to live young. It is highly variable and may be a complex of closely related species.[1][2]