Blotched Blue Tongue Lizard

Latin Name: Tiliqua nigrolutea  ("black-yellow tiliqua")

Class:Reptilia   Order:Squamata-Sauria    Family:Scincidae    Genus:Tiliqua.

Distribution: 30,000-100,000 square kilometres in south eastern South Australia,
                      Tasmania, Victoria including DVP and south eastern New South Wales.

Habitat: Ranges, slopes, valleys and lowlands with vegetation ranging from forest,
               woodland, shrublands (heaths), and alpine meadows to swampy vegetation.
               It shelters in hollow logs, in animal burrows, in excavations under stones,
               or in deep leaf litter.

Description: The ground colour is black with two to four longitudinally aligned rows of
                      elongate orange-yellow blotches on the back and two or three similar rows
                      of brownish-grey to greenish-grey blotches on each side. The tail usually
                      has pale cross-bands, blotches, or a mixture of the two. The Blotched Blue
                      Tongue is quite robust with a compact body, a deep rounded head and a
                      relatively stout tail.

Length: Head and Body Length to 32cm, Total Overall Length to 48cm.

Blotched Blue Tongue Lizard

Food: Snails, slugs, fungi, insects - especially beetles and cicadas, soft plant material
           (fruits, flowers, leaves & native berries), mice, spiders, worms and carrion are eaten.

Breeding: From two to twelve (usually four to eight) quite large live young are born in
                  late summer.

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