Western spiny-tailed skink
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| phylum | Chordata | The western spiny-tailed skink is a robust lizard with the cylindrical body and rather short limbs typical of a skink, it is olive- to reddish-brown in colour, with scattered paler brown and darker-edged scales which tend to form transverse bars. The belly is white, cream or yellow. The tail, which measures just a third of the snout-vent length, is strongly flattened and, as the common name suggests, heavily spined.
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| clade | Diapsida | |
| order | Squamata | |
| family | Scincidae | |
| genus | Egernia | |
| species | E. stokesii badia |
