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OT Legless-ish lizards

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Subject: OT Legless-ish lizards
From: "Paul T." <>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:03:57 +1100
Howdy All,

Apologies for the off bird topic, but we seem to have a lot of knowledge here of other fauna so I thought I would ask. Is there a species of "legless" lizard locally that looks like a very large "common" skink (i.e the little ones that we get here all over the place in our gardens), with legs proportionally around half the size of the normal skink and that moves by undulation akin to the visual movement of a snake? The other day I unearthed a squirmy little beastie of this description amongst the pots in my back yard. It was maybe 50% larger than the normal skinks (far larger than any I have observed here in my garden at the very least), definitely possessed legs that were quite small, and that it definitely did not use at all in it's attempts to get away from me. I didn't pursue it as I didn't want to risk hurting it...... I honestly thought it was just a very large skink until I realised the legs were relatively small and that it didn't move right.

Does anyone know what this may have been? Perhaps better to respond to me privately as I don't want to clog up the list with my non-birding lizard question. <grin>

Thanks in anticipation.

Cheers.

Paul T.
Higgins, ACT


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