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Durack has or used to have 72 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Jurien Bay Skink.

We took care to attach appropriate images that are as close to representative of each species as our resources and the availability of images allowed. However, we could not ensure perfect accuracy in every case. Some images show species that share the same genus but not at the species or subspecies level.

Photo of Jurien Bay Skink

Jurien Bay Skink

Liopholis pulchra longicauda

Status: Vulnerable

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) lists threatened species under six categories:
Extinct, Extinct in the wild, Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Conservation dependent. Read more about these categories

Liopholis pulchra longicauda is found across 1 electorates.

The Jurien Bay Skink is a slender, flat-headed, medium-sized skink with a long tail. The subspecies' upper surface is brown, while a black laterodorsal stripe is usually present and enclosing a series of pale spots and bordered below by pale grey dorsolateral stripe.The Jurien Bay Skink has a bright orange ventral surface, and a suffusion of orange on the upper and lower labials, auricular lobules, loreals temporals, side of neck and many pale spots on the back. The orbit is black contrasting with the creamy white edge of eyelids. The sides of the Jurien Bay Skink are grey and densely flecked with black or, rarely, white. The Jurien Bay Skink grows to 30 cm in length. Midbody scales are dorsal and lateral with two to four keels and 33–38 rows. The lamellae are smooth and subdigital, while the fourth toe is 23–28 proximally divided. The snout-vent length is 54–104 mm, while the tail is up to 218% of SVL, which is 25% longer than the mainland subspecies Egernia pulchra pulchra. Sexes are similar and the orange coloration is not a breeding characteristic.¹

Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia

Habitat loss, fragmentation and degradationHabitat loss, fragmentation and degradation

Explore more about the threats facing species on our Resources page.

Durack has or used to have 184 threatened plants found within its boundaries. Some of these might not be as photogenic as the Jurien Bay Skink but they're just as important.

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