Tiliqua rugosa

6 Shingleback Lizard at Yass River, NSW

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Identification history

	Tiliqua rugosa	28 Sep 2019	wombey
	Tiliqua rugosa	27 Sep 2019	SueMcIntyre

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Caught eating flowers of the rare Leptorhynchos elongatus. Who gets priority?

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WillO wrote:

30 Sep 2019

Shinglebacks find yellow flowers of many native species very appealing to eat. They also very much like to eat the flowers of weeds such as capeweed and dandelion (who gets priority?). Cheers Will

SueMcIntyre wrote:

1 Oct 2019

Will - This year, the shingleback does, as there are so few flowers. In other years, when I have found them scoffing my yam daisies, I have got very twitchy. Have you seen them eating Hypochoeris? I haven't, but I would be very grateful if they did. Sue.

WillO wrote:

1 Oct 2019

Hi Sue - I am not sure if I have seen shinglebacks eating Hypochoeris (it may have been Taraxacum). Sorry to not be more helpful. I am really interested in this possibility of impact on some of the asteraceae species. Shinglebacks have a bit of a hard time from domestic dogs and there have been some very mysterious deaths of shinglebacks in the Majura reserve that have come to light from several regular reporters on the nature map site. Will.

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1 Abundance
22 Sep 2019 01:15 PM Recorded on
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Tiliqua rugosa Scientific name
Shingleback Lizard Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 888.04m Recorded at altitude
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