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Great desert skink
Conservation status
Great desert skink
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Liopholis
Species:
L. kintorei
Binomial name
Liopholis kintorei
(Stirling & Zietz, 1893)
Synonyms[2]
  • Egernia kintorei
    Stirling & Zietz, 1893
  • Egernia dahlii
    Boulenger, 1896
  • Egernia kintorei
    — Glauert, 1960
  • Liopholis kintorei
    — Gardner et al., 2008

The great desert skink (Liopholis kintorei or Egernia kintorei), also known as Kintore's egernia and by various names including tjakura in various Aboriginal Australian languages, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the western half of Australia. It is a burrowing lizard and extremely social.

  1. ^ Paltridge, R.; Catt, G.; Cowan, M.; Gaikhorst, G.; How, R.; Zichy-Woinarski, J.; Cogger, H.; Teale, R. (2018). "Liopholis kintorei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T7040A101743329. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T7040A101743329.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Liopholis kintorei ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

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