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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassSquamata
- OrderSquamata
- FamilyScincidae
アオジタトカゲ属（アオジタトカゲぞく、Tiliqua）は、有鱗目トカゲ科に属する属。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 272
- Family
- Scincidae
- Collections
- CUMV, ROM, ANWC, UAZ, UCM, MZLU
- Recorded in
- Australia, Papua New Guinea
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Lygosominae
- Image
- Tiliqua scincoides scincoides.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- Commons category
- Tiliqua
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Tiliqua
- topic's main category
- Category:Tiliqua
- taxon author citation
- Gray, 1825
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Blue-tongued skinks are lizards of the Australasian genus Tiliqua, which includes some of the largest members of the skink family (Scincidae). They are commonly called blue-tongued lizards, simply blue-tongues, blueys in Australia, or panana in Indonesia. As suggested by these common names, a prominent characteristic of the genus is a large blue tongue that can be bared as bluff-warning to potential enemies. Their tongue can also deform itself and produce a thick mucus in order to catch prey. They are relatively shy in comparison with other lizards, and also significantly slower due to their shorter legs.
Systematics and distribution
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tiliqua” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.