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Western crocodile skink

species of reptile

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ6451283 ↗
Source-derived summary

The western crocodile skink or false Poncelet's helmet skink (Tribolonotus pseudoponceleti) is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is found in Bougainville and Buka.

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“Western crocodile skink” enters the record as species of reptile. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Western, crocodile and skink can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6451283. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Western crocodile 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.