Grass Skink

Latin Name: Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii (on'-tre-kah-stoh'-zee-ee, after
                      J.A.B. d'Entrecasteaux)

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

Distribution: 100,000-300,000 square kilometres in the highlands and southern areas
                      of NSW, southern Victoria including Dandenong Valley Park, Tasmania,
                      and south eastern Tasmania.

Habitat: Cool forests, woodlands, lower gullies, moist heath and humid coastal and
               island vegetation

Description: It is variable in colour, generally darker with, at most, only an indistinct
                     dark vertebral line, a blackish brown upper lateral zone and a paler
                     mid-lateral stripe. Well-striped and strongly speckled specimens also
                     occur. Males have a pinkish red flush anteriorly and sometimes also
                     under the posterior body and tail.

Length: Head and Body Length to 6cm, Total Overall Length to 17cm.

Grass Skink

Food: This skink forages mainly for insects and spiders around logs and rocks and on
           bare (and often wet) soil which is covered with leaf litter.

Breeding: Mating occurs in spring and between two and six live young are born in
                  summer. This skink was also known as the Leiolopisma entrecasteauxii and
                  is sometimes commonly called the Tussock Cool-skink.

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