White's skink

An attractively marked, fairly stocky, medium sized skink. The average adult head and body length is 80-85 mm, the maximum in Tasmania being about 90 mm. Tasmanian specimens usually have two rows of white spots set in dark lines along the back and white spots on the flanks. The upper lip of the white's skink is normally marked with white. Tasmanian specimens do not achieve the size of mainland specimens, the longest Tasmanian specimens recorded with a total length (including the tail) of 220 mm. The "plain backed" type, which is common in populations on the Australian mainland does not occur in Tasmania.