Steve Hitchcock
Land Mullet - Egernia major (Scincidae) Juvenile
Land Mullets (Egernia major, Scincidae) are large (60 cm total length), powerful glossy black lizards that are restricted to rain forest and associated habitats in southeastern Australia.
Their black-brown scales assist with rapid body warming & the restricted sunlight of the rainforest requires a number of basking sites to be available.
Land mullets do not hatch their young from eggs, instead they bear live young with 4 to 9 independent offspring per litter.
Largely solitary, they eat woody fungi, mushrooms, berries, seeds, insects such as beetles and grasshoppers as well as decaying fruit material.
Photographed Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia.
Steve Hitchcock © All rights reserved
Land Mullet - Egernia major (Scincidae) Juvenile
Land Mullets (Egernia major, Scincidae) are large (60 cm total length), powerful glossy black lizards that are restricted to rain forest and associated habitats in southeastern Australia.
Their black-brown scales assist with rapid body warming & the restricted sunlight of the rainforest requires a number of basking sites to be available.
Land mullets do not hatch their young from eggs, instead they bear live young with 4 to 9 independent offspring per litter.
Largely solitary, they eat woody fungi, mushrooms, berries, seeds, insects such as beetles and grasshoppers as well as decaying fruit material.
Photographed Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia.
Steve Hitchcock © All rights reserved