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    Species Accepted

    Lampropholis delicata (de Vis, 1888)

    Dark-flecked garden sunskink
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Lampropholis
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      Recorded as introduced in 3 countries or islands

      3 results
      Introduced inAccording toInvasiveOccurrences in GBIF
      AustraliaNo
      AustraliaYes
      United States of AmericaNo
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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      10 results
      Dark-flecked garden sunskink English
      Delicate Garden Skink English
      Delicate Skink English
      Garden Skink English
      Grass Skink English
      Metallic Skink English
      Plague skink English
      Rainbow Skink English
      Scinco delicato Italian
      Радужный сцинк Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      56 results
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      Hathaway, S. A., Jacobi, J. D., Peck, R., Backlin, A. R., Hitchcock, C. J., & Fisher, R. N. (2025). Biodiversity surveys of Wake Atoll—Featuring field guides for plants, arthropods, and herpetofauna. US Geological Survey (No. 2023-1066).
      Murphy, Michael J. (2010). ADDITIONS TO THE HERPETOFAUNA OF GORE CREEK RESERVE AND LANE COVE BUSHLAND PARK IN INNER SUBURBAN SYDNEY, NSW. Herpetofauna 40 (2): 103-110.
      Howard, R., I. Williamson & P. Mather. (2003). Structural Aspects of Microhabitat Selection by the Skink Lampropholis delicata. Journal of Herpetology 37 (3): 613-617.
      Hutchinson, M. N. (1979). The reptiles of Kinglake National Park. Victorian Naturalist 96: 124-134.
      Bretzel, & Joachim. (2023). Tasmanien im Herbst. Elaphe 2023 (3): 40-45.
      Anderson, R. O., Tingley, R., Hoskin, C. J., White, C. R., & Chapple, D. G. (2023). Linking physiology and climate to infer species distributions in Australian skinks. Journal of Animal Ecology.
      Hoser, R. T. (2012). A new genus and new species and new subspecies of skink from Victoria. Australasian J. Herpetol. 12:63–64.
      Daly, & Garry and Glenn Hoye. (2016). Survey of the reptiles of the montane forests near Dorrigo on the north coast of New South Wales. Australian Zoologist 38 (1): 26-42.
      Harris, J., Smith, C. R., van Winkel, D., Brunton, D. H., Goulet, C. T., & Chapple, D. G. (2020). Does the invasive plague skink (Lampropholis delicata) compete with native skink species in New Zealand? Austral Ecology.

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