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Brown Four-fingered Skink
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- Order: Squamata (scaled reptiles)
- Suborder: Lacertilia (=Sauria) (lizards)
- Family: Scincidae (skinks)
- Genus: Carlia (Australian four-fingered
skinks)
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| Also Known As: curious
brown skink |
Scientific Name: Carlia fusca
(Dumeril and Bibron, 1839) |
| Habitat: For this
population, rocky shoreline with ground cover foliage. Found 10
feet from tidal zone. |
fusca="brown, dark, swarthy"
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| Length: About 6 inches
total. |
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| Food: Insects and
small vertebrates (including other lizards). |
Range: Originally native to New
Guinea; introduced to Guam, Saipan, and Rota (Marianas Islands) |
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I found several specimens of this lizard at War
in the Pacific National Historical Park, Asan, Guam. The
picture here is a still from several minutes' worth of video I
took while observing these skinks near the shoreline. |
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| This species apparently was
introduced to Guam in the 1960s, to the detriment of native
skinks. |
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