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America. The species are often associated with vertical, often rocky microhabitats and other niches, foraging and residing on surfaces that lack available water. Cliffs and rocks are typical abodes, sandstone near shorelines in a common habitat for some species, as well as trees in forest environments, and they are known to occur at ground level to forage or commute to another location or in environments that lack this habitat. The species may be locally common to abundant, in numbers up to twenty or thirty at a cliff, rock pile or other favoured site.
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which also contained the broods of several females. The ability to occupy vertical environs is favoured by the fences and brick walls of urbanisation, where clusters of eggs have also occasionally been discovered within the cavities, and glimpses of them basking in the sun are frequently made before
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Northern Territory Museum, published revised systematics that sampled widely distributed populations in the Australian region, with small samples of taxa from other regions, to identify twenty five taxa in Australia, another thirteen in the southwest of the Indian oceanic area, and a further
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are small-bodied, lack eyelids, are pentadactyl, and have shiny scales. They are able to move rapidly and with great agility, snatching insects from the air and climbing vertical surfaces with ease. They are often observed basking in the sun and disappearing into a hole or crevice in response to a
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family. Species are found at the east coast of Africa and on
Madagascar in a western Indian Ocean range that is isolated from the species found in a region that includes Australia, Indonesia, New Guinea and the Pacific area. Outlying from the Pacific region are species found at three areas on the
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Feeding is probably opportunistic, any arthropod that is small enough to consume, which is known to include spiders, ants and termites. Trails of winged ants have been observed as feeding opportunities, and some species are recorded seizing dead insects being carried by a line of worker ants.
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Juvenile fish are also known to be eaten. These skinks are a source of food to a number of predators, but which species are able to capture them is also poorly surveyed. An individual has been observed as prey to a centipede, albeit when both were trapped (
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they rapidly flee any disturbance. When seen on a tree, the arboreal species will continually circle to the opposite side to evade a possible threat.
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There are a large number of species, with a distribution range across many continents; they are the most widespread genus of the
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perceived threat. Females may share a site to deposit their eggs, the species returning annually to lay a small clutch.
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Zoologie, gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erde, von Dr. F. J. F. Meyen, siebente Abhandlung. Amphibien
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828:– Péron's snake-eyed skink, callose-palmed shinning-skink
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skinks (Reptilia: Scincidae) in the
Mascarene islands".
713:– coastal snake-eyed skink, supralittoral shinning-skink
393:– East African snake-eyed skink, African coral rag skink
272:, or by characteristics such as their lack of eyelids,
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843:– mottled snake-eyed skink, Oceania snake-eyed skink
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1352:, new genus, p. 203). (in
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779:Cryptoblepharus novocaledonicus
223:Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann
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980:– Voeltzkow's snake-eyed skink
833:Cryptoblepharus poecilopleurus
822:Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus
790:Cryptoblepharus novohebridicus
754:Cryptoblepharus nigropunctatus
619:– black-boulder shinning-skink
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42:Cryptoblepharus poecilopleurus
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932:– Schlegel's snake-eyed skink
926:Cryptoblepharus schlegelianus
869:– five-lined snake-eyed skink
774:– New Guinea snake-eyed skink
496:– Buchanan's snake-eyed skink
785:– New Caledonian shore skink
768:Cryptoblepharus novaeguineae
738:– Mertens's snake-eyed skink
551:– Swanson's snake-eyed skink
288:Member species of the genus
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1124:Australian Faunal Directory
991:– spangled snake-eyed skink
749:– metallic snake-eyed skink
718:Cryptoblepharus megastictus
693:Cryptoblepharus leschenault
644:– Glorioso snake-eyed skink
530:– Nossy Be snake-eyed skink
461:Cryptoblepharus bitaeniatus
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974:Cryptoblepharus voeltzkowi
854:– elegant snake-eyed skink
743:Cryptoblepharus metallicus
562:– dappled snake-eyed skink
486:Cryptoblepharus buchananii
448:Cryptoblepharus balinensis
378:– Adams's snake-eyed skink
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342:Cryptoblepharus metallicus
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1151:Études sur les Scincoïdes
954:– russet snake-eyed skink
948:Cryptoblepharus ustulatus
884:Cryptoblepharus richardsi
817:– ragged snake-eyed skink
727:– blotched shinning-skink
707:Cryptoblepharus litoralis
634:Cryptoblepharus gloriosus
443:– inland snake-eyed skink
437:Cryptoblepharus australis
383:Cryptoblepharus africanus
346:metallic snake-eyed skink
227:Ablepharus poecilipleurus
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1022:– agile snake-eyed skink
1006:Cryptoblepharus yulensis
959:Cryptoblepharus virgatus
943:– pygmy snake-eyed skink
907:– tawny snake-eyed skink
811:Cryptoblepharus pannosus
732:Cryptoblepharus mertensi
679:Cryptoblepharus keiensis
601:– noble snake-eyed skink
556:Cryptoblepharus daedalos
545:Cryptoblepharus cygnatus
524:Cryptoblepharus cognatus
514:Cryptoblepharus caudatus
471:Cryptoblepharus boutonii
432:– black snake-eyed skink
412:Cryptoblepharus aldabrae
407:– Ahl's snake-eyed skink
280:for their glossy skins.
245:, the name published by
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1016:Cryptoblepharus zoticus
996:Cryptoblepharus xenikos
937:Cryptoblepharus tytthos
912:Cryptoblepharus rutilus
874:Cryptoblepharus renschi
848:Cryptoblepharus pulcher
806:– pale snake-eyed skink
649:Cryptoblepharus gurrmul
595:Cryptoblepharus exochus
582:Cryptoblepharus eximius
567:Cryptoblepharus egeriae
501:Cryptoblepharus burdeni
800:Cryptoblepharus ochrus
624:Cryptoblepharus furvus
535:Cryptoblepharus cursor
369:Cryptoblepharus adamsi
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894:Cryptoblepharus ruber
606:Cryptoblepharus fuhni
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422:Cryptoblepharus ater
398:Cryptoblepharus ahli
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