Common Scaly-foot at Bournda, NSW
Identification history
| Pygopus lepidopodus | 3 Sep 2020 | PatrickCampbell | ||
| Pseudonaja textilis | 12 Jun 2020 | RossMannell |
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User's notes
This snake was around 30cm in length as it moved quickly off the road when I approached. The photo had to be taken quickly but I am guessing it’s a young brown snake.
3 comments
snakey
wrote:
2 Sep 2020
Judging by the regrowth of the tail tip my best guess is not a snake but a legless lizard probably a scaly-foot pygopus lepidopodus.....Rob
snakey
wrote:
3 Sep 2020
As far as i know snakes do not have the capability to regrow their tails unlike skinks legless lizzies and geckoes.We only have that one pygopus in this area,and I have only ever seen one on the kangarutha track many years ago.
PatrickCampbell
wrote:
3 Sep 2020
I'm confident that this is a Common Scaly-foot, despite the quality of the photograph. Reasons being the regrown tail (snakes cannot regrow their tails, as mentioned); the just visible flap/scaley-foot(~halfway); the horizontally aligned, small, dark, posterior dashes on the tail; the relatively thickset body with indistinct neck; textured scales (longitudinally aligned) barely visible anteriorly (on the body); and just barely visible tympanic opening, indicated by dark mark in the tympanic region.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.933107-36.829216
- Maps Bournda National Park
- Places Bournda, NSW
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 24 Mar 2020 02:28 PM Recorded on
- RossMannell Recorded by
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Collections
Reptiles and Frogs Legless Lizards RossMannell South Coast NatureMapr
Species information
- Pygopus lepidopodus Scientific name
- Common Scaly-foot Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 405.2m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
