Corucia zebrata, Solomon Islands Skink, prehensile-tailed skink, monkey-tailed skink, giant skink, zebra skink, monkey skink.
Corucia is evolutionarily distinct and diverged from its nearest relatives about 30 million years ago. Little is known about its life history, basic ecology, or behavior in the wild.
They are arboreal lizards with powerful feet and a prehensile tail...
Rather than laying eggs usually only one baby is born live with a placenta attached to the mother...
A skink mother with two year old twins and her new baby. They stay together as a family group along with the father...
They are nocturnal ...
Solomon Islands skinks are herbivores, feeding on the leaves, flowers, fruit, and growing shoots of several different species of plants
This website hopes to introduce the Solomon Islands Skink and provide information for those thinking of keeping them and want to work together to save them.
Unfortunally, they are very rare now.
In 1992 Corucia zebrata was listed as a CITES Appendix II animal. For more info on CITES:
http://www.cites.org/eng/app/index.php
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