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SHINGLEBACK SKINK
Tiliqua rugosa

The 4 subspecies of Tiliqua rugosa are listed below

Sub-adult Common/Eastern Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa aspera) at Outer Harbour, near Adelaide, SA

Approximate distribution of the Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa) subspecies

Note that I am unsure where the Western Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa rugosa) becomes the Eastern Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa aspera) but I think it is somewhere around the WA/SA border.

Adult Common/Eastern Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa aspera) at Wynarka, SA

Western Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa rugosa) from Cocklebiddy (Western) WA


Western Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa rugosa) from Cocklebiddy (Western) WA

Western Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa rugosa) at Caversham Wildlife Park WA

  
Goldfields form of Western Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa rugosa) from inland WA

Juvenile Common/Eastern Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa aspera) from far western NSW (West of Broken Hill)



Common/Eastern Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa aspera) from Adelaide area (SA)



Common/Eastern Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa aspera) from Cobar, NSW.


Common/Eastern Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa aspera) found near the Garfield Water Wheel, Chewton, Victoria.


Common/Eastern Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa aspera) near, Kyancutta on Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.

Common/Eastern Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa aspera) at Whites Knob Lookout, Kimba on Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.

Adult Common/Eastern Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa aspera) at Outer Harbour, near Adelaide, SA


Sub-adult Common/Eastern Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa aspera) at Outer Harbour, near Adelaide, SA


This cream patterned baby Common/Eastern Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa aspera) was photographed basking on the side of the road next to Monarto Forest Reserve, SA


Head shot of the cream patterned baby Common/Eastern Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa aspera) which was photographed basking on the side of the road,in the middle of winter, near Monarto Forest Reserve, SA

This yellow patterned baby Common/Eastern Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa aspera) was photographed basking on the side of a track in the middle of winter, in Monarto Forest Reserve, SA



Adult Common/Eastern Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa aspera) at photographed at Tower Hill, Victoria

Adult Common/Eastern Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa aspera) and an underweight Eastern Bearded Dragon (Pogona barbata), found curled up together under some debris at Monarto, SA

These are captive bred hybrids between a Common/Eastern Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa aspera) and a Common Bluetongue (Tiliqua scincoides scincoides) , however hybrids have occasionally been found in the wild. An adult wild caught Shingleback/bluetongue hybrid was kept on display at the South Australian Museum in the information section for many years until it was stolen. Later the South Australian Museum obtained a second adult Shingleback/bluetongue hybrid which I think was also wild caught. I suspect one parent of each museum specimen was a Common Bluetongue (Tiliqua scincoides scincoides) or possibly a lowlands form of Blotched Bluetongue (Tiliqua nigrolutea)

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