Common Lanka Skink

The common Lanka skink, also called the common supple skink or Peters's tree skink, is found in Sri Lanka and the Western Ghats of India. Unlike other Lanka skinks its frontoparietal scale is fused. Males have a red throat and a bright red iris, and the female iris is yellow. The throat varies from red to blue or cream with white spots, presumably with reproductive state. The back is pale to dark brown, each scale with a pale stripe that joins into longitudinal lines, and a yellowish-brown stripe runs from behind the eye beyond the middle of the tail. The belly is plain creamy (Wikipedia, general species account).

One egg is laid per clutch, in loose soil. Nationally Least Concern (Sri Lanka National Red List 2012).