Tiliqua rugosa: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the tiliqua rugosa lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Tiliqua rugosa
Group	Lizards, geckos & tuatara
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	Oceania
Class	Reptile
Order	Squamata
Family	Scincidae

Where does the tiliqua rugosa live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the tiliqua rugosa in 1 country or territory across Oceania. Wikidata lists it as endemic to Australia.

Australia

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the tiliqua rugosa endangered?

The tiliqua rugosa’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the tiliqua rugosa?

The tiliqua rugosa (Tiliqua rugosa) is a reptile in the order Squamata and the family Scincidae, genus Tiliqua. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the tiliqua rugosa

Tiliqua rugosa, most commonly known as the shingleback skink, shingleback lizard, bobtail lizard, and the two-headed skink (often simply shingleback or bobtail); is a short-tailed, slow-moving species of blue-tongued skink (genus Tiliqua) endemic to Australia. Three of its four recognised subspecies are found in Western Australia, where the bobtail name is most frequently used. The fourth subspecies, T. rugosa asper, is the only one native to eastern Australia, where it goes by the common name of the eastern shingleback.

Apart from bobtail and shingleback, a variety of other common names are used in different states, including two-headed skink, stumpy lizard, stumpy-tailed lizard, pinecone lizard, bogeye or boggi, and less commonly: sleepy lizard. The Noongar Aboriginal people refer to T. rugosa as yoorn in their language.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Tiliqua rugosa (revision 1380027129), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q572677 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).