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Wide Bay has or used to have 36 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Nangur Spiny 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.
Nangur Spiny Skink
Nangura spinosa
Status: Critically Endangered
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
Nangura spinosa is only found within Wide Bay
The Nangur Spiny Skink is brown above, with irregular narrow blackish cross-bands. The labial scales are edged with black. The skink is cream below with the dorsal and ventral colours merging on the flanks. Scales are in 28 to 30 rows at mid body, while the body scales are strongly keeled and forming longitudinal ridges and ventral scales are weakly carinate. The Nangur Spiny Skink has no ear lobes, the ear-opening is large and vertically elliptic and the tympanum is superficial, lying just below the rim of the opening. There are a series of enlarged scales separating the labials from the small scales of the eyelid, which is entirely scaly. The Nangur Spiny Skink grows to a snout-vent length of 9.5 cm.¹
Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia
Adverse fire regimes
Habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation
Invasive species and diseases
Overexploitation and other direct harm from human activities
Explore more about the threats facing species on our Resources page.
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