samuelpurdiewildlife's Identifications

really, really tiny, and motionless in the sun, on a decaying harakeke leaf in a pile of harakeke prunings...was in such a hurry to photograph it I failed to mentally measure, but my impression was about 2.5cm L, so maybe twice that stretched out...or maybe less

Development stage?

Many of these skinks are inhabiting the gardens and the decking around the house. Likely to be the NZ common skink, although colouration is slightly different to that shown in identification keys. This specimen was 11 cm in length.