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Central pygmy spiny-tailed skink

species of reptile

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ3049136 ↗
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The central pygmy spiny-tailed skink (Egernia eos) is a species of large skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is native to Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

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This entry incorporates text from “Central pygmy spiny-tailed skink” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.