Taylor's Lanka Skink

Taylor's Lanka skink, or Taylor's tree skink, is a montane Lanka skink endemic to Sri Lanka, named for Edward Harrison Taylor. It is found in moist leaf litter and under stones and logs in forest at 470 to 1,350 m, at Sinharaja, the Knuckles, Gampola, Hantana and Udawatta Kele. The head, body and tail are long and slender, with 24 to 26 midbody scale rows. The back is chocolate brown, each scale with a dark grey horseshoe mark open at the rear, and a dark brown flank band carries blue spots. The throat is greyish with blue spots and the belly yellow (Wikipedia, general species account).

It feeds on insects, and mature females usually lay two eggs at a time. Nationally Endangered (Sri Lanka National Red List 2012).