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There are around 427 skinks by my count so it may take us a while to get to them.

Legless

• Eared worm-lizard
• Exmouth worm-lizard
• Shark Bay worm-lizard
• Red-tailed worm-lizard 
• Pink-tailed worm-lizard
• Black-headed worm-lizard  
• Flinders worm-lizard
• Granite worm-lizard 
• Sand-plain worm-lizard
• Monte Bello worm-lizard 
• Black-tipped worm-lizard 
• Lined worm-lizard
• Marble-faced delma 
• Rusty-topped delma
• Unbanded delma 
• Javelin legless lizard  
• Banded delma
• Pilbara delma
• Fraser's delma 
• Side-barred delma  
• Neck-barred delma
• Striped legless lizard
• Patternless delma 
• Atherton delma 
• Gulfs delma
• Sharp-snouted delma 
• Peace delma
• Peterson's delma/Painted delma 
• Leaden delma
• Teale's delma
• Excitable delma 
• Collared delma
• Burton's legless lizard  
• Bronzeback
• Brigalow scaly-foot
• Keeled legless lizard  
• Common scaly-foot
• Western hooded scaly-foot 
• Roberts' scaly-foot
• Eastern hooded scaly-foot  
• Northern hooded scaly-foot
   

R O UK?

 Rishi Sunak doesn't sound like the name of a UK Prime Minister but, to be fair, neither does Keir Starmer.

Is there a gecko in here?

• Chameleon gecko   

  Alexander's gecko   

  Marbled gecko   

  Clawless gecko   

  Ring-tailed gecko   

  South coast gecko   

  Cape Range stone gecko   

  Fat-tailed gecko   

  Lake Disappointment ground gecko   

  Ranges stone gecko  

  Northern Pilbara beak-faced gecko   

  Helmeted gecko   

  Western stone gecko   

  Kenneally's gecko   

  Kluge's gecko  

  Pilbara stone gecko   

  Ornate stone gecko  

  Speckled stone gecko   

  Fine-faced gecko   

  Yellow-spotted Pilbara gecko   

  Tessellated gecko   

  Eastern stone gecko   

  Desert wood gecko   

  Northern dtella   

  Short-tailed dtella   Gehyra baliola

  Borroloola dtella   Gehyra borroloola

  Chain-backed dtella   Gehyra catenata

  Dubious dtella   Gehyra dubia

  King's dtella   Gehyra koira

  Southern rock dtella   Gehyra lazelli

  Dwarf dtella   Gehyra minuta

  Centralian dtella   Gehyra montium

  Northern spotted rock dtella   Gehyra nana

  Kimberley Plateau dtella   Gehyra occidentalis

  Oceanic gecko   Gehyra oceanica

  Arnhemland watercourse dtella   Gehyra pamela

  Pilbara dtella   Gehyra pilbara

  Spotted dtella   Gehyra punctata

  Purplish dtella   Gehyra purpurascens

  Robust dtella   Gehyra robusta

  Tree dtella   Gehyra variegata

  Crocodile-faced dtella   Gehyra xenopus

  Asian house gecko   Hemidactylus frenatus

  Bynoe's gecko   Heteronotia binoei

  North-west prickly gecko   Heteronotia planiceps

  Desert cave gecko   Heteronotia spelea

  Mourning gecko   Lepidodactylus lugubris

  Slender chained gecko   Lepidodactylus pumilus

  White-spotted ground gecko   Lucasium alboguttatum

  Southern sandplain gecko   Lucasium bungabinna

  Gibber gecko   Lucasium byrnei

  Beaded gecko   Lucasium damaeum

  Pale-striped ground gecko   Lucasium immaculatum

  Main's ground gecko   Lucasium maini

  Yellow-snouted ground gecko   Lucasium occultum

  Mottled ground gecko   Lucasium squarrosum

  Box-patterned gecko   Lucasium steindachneri

  Sand-plain gecko   Lucasium stenodactylum

  Pilbara ground gecko   Lucasium wombeyi

  Chevert's gecko   Nactus cheverti

  Eborac Island gecko   Nactus eboracensis

  Black Mountain gecko   Nactus galgajuga

  Pelagic gecko   Nactus pelagicus

  Centralian knob-tailed gecko   Nephrurus amyae

  Prickly knob-tailed gecko   Nephrurus asper

  Pernatty knob-tailed gecko   Nephrurus deleani

  Pale knob-tailed gecko   Nephrurus laevissimus

  Smooth knob-tailed gecko   Nephrurus levis

  Northern knob-tailed gecko   Nephrurus sheai

  Starred knob-tailed gecko   Nephrurus stellatus

  Midline knob-tailed gecko   Nephrurus vertebralis

  Banded knob-tailed gecko   Nephrurus wheeleri

  Northern velvet gecko   Oedura castelnaui

  Northern spotted velvet gecko   Oedura coggeri

  Elegant velvet gecko  Oedura elegans
  

  Fringe-toed velvet gecko   Oedura filicipoda

  Dotted velvet gecko   Oedura gemmata

  Gracile velvet gecko   Oedura gracilis

  Clouded gecko   Oedura jacovae

  Quinkan velvet gecko   Oedura jowalbinna

  Lesueur's velvet gecko   Oedura lesueurii

  Marbled velvet gecko   Oedura marmorata

  Ocellated velvet gecko   Oedura monilis

  Slim velvet gecko   Oedura obscura

  Reticulated velvet gecko   Oedura reticulata

  Zigzag velvet gecko   Oedura rhombifer

  Robust velvet gecko   Oedura robusta

  Southern spotted velvet gecko   Oedura tryoni

  McIlwraith leaf-tailed gecko   Orraya occultus

  Riverine leaf-tailed gecko   Phyllurus amnicola

  Ringed thin-tailed gecko   Phyllurus caudiannulatus

  Champion's leaf-tailed gecko   Phyllurus championae

  Paluma Range leaf-tailed gecko   Phyllurus gulbaru

  Mount Jukes broad-tailed gecko   Phyllurus isis

  Oakview leaf-tailed gecko   Phyllurus kabikabi

  Peppered-belly broad-tailed gecko   Phyllurus nepthys

  Mount Ossa broad-tailed gecko   Phyllurus ossa

  Broad-tailed gecko   Phyllurus platurus

  Giant tree gecko   Pseudothecadactylus australis

  Western giant cave gecko   Pseudothecadactylus cavaticus

  Northern giant cave gecko   Pseudothecadactylus lindneri

  Beaked gecko   Rhynchoedura ornata

  Northern leaf-tailed gecko   Saltuarius cornutus

  Kate's leaf-tailed gecko   Saltuarius kateae

  Moritz's leaf-tailed gecko   Saltuarius moritzi

  Rough-throated leaf-tailed gecko   Saltuarius salebrosus

  Southern leaf-tailed gecko   Saltuarius swaini

  Wyberba leaf-tailed gecko   Saltuarius wyberba

  Thorn-tailed gecko   Strophurus assimilis

  Northern spiny-tailed gecko   Strophurus ciliaris

  Jewelled gecko   Strophurus elderi

  Southern spiny-tailed gecko   Strophurus intermedius

  Southern phasmid gecko   Strophurus jeanae

  Kristin's gecko   Strophurus krisalys

  Short-tailed striped gecko   Strophurus mcmillani

  Robust striped gecko   Strophurus michaelseni

  Exmouth spiny-tailed gecko   Strophurus rankini

  Robinson's spiny-tailed gecko   Strophurus robinsoni

  Soft spiny-tailed gecko   Strophurus spinigerus

  Western spiny-tailed gecko   Strophurus strophurus

  Phasmid striped gecko   Strophurus taeniatus

  Golden-tailed gecko   Strophurus taenicauda

  Western Shield spiny-tailed gecko   Strophurus wellingtonae

  Eastern spiny-tailed gecko   Strophurus williamsi

  Mount Augustus spiny-tailed gecko   Strophurus wilsoni

  Thick-tailed gecko   Underwoodisaurus milii

  New England Tableland thick-tailed gecko   Uvidicolus sphyrurus

Squamata schemata

 Order Squamata is plentiful in Aus, I haven't even separated the serpents into their respective families blind snakes, pythons, file snakes, colubrid snakes, elapid snakes, true sea snakes, and sea kraits.

Tortoise, well

Noted for their slow movement and longevity; though this possibly doesn't apply to all members of the family Testudinidae. Australia's are turtles in the main. We have pig-nosed turtles, freshwater turtles, sliders (the red-eared slider), sea turtles and leatherback turtles. 

Freshwater Turtles

• Sandstone long-necked turtle
• Cann's long-necked turtle
• Broad-shelled turtle
• Kuchling's long-necked turtle
• Eastern long-necked turtle
• New Guinea long-necked turtle
• Oblong turtle
• Northern long-necked turtle
• Flat-shelled turtle
• Southern snapping turtle
• Northern snapping turtle
• Irwin's turtle
• Jukes' turtle (Alligator Rivers snapping turtle)
  
• Gulf snapping turtle
• Stirling's turtle
• Mary River turtle
• North-west red-faced turtle
• Murray River turtle
• Painted turtle
• Northern yellow-faced turtle  
• Northern red-faced turtle
• Western swamp turtle
• Fitzroy River turtle
• Bell's turtle
• Georges' turtle 
• Saw-shelled turtle 
• Purvis' turtle
  

Sea Turtles

• Loggerhead turtle
• Green turtle
• Hawksbill turtle
• Pacific ridley turtle (Olive ridley turtle)
  
• Flatback turtle
  

  
  

 

Rept. isles

Are reptiles - our next most abundant species - fully and fairly represented? Or are some still hiding under rocks, camouflaged? Let's go outside and look.

I would note that they are still very much of interest and a zombie crocodile park lurks further up (don't ask) as a risk when, naturally, there would be an abundance of native reptiles in that very area; along with other wildlife.

Regardless of our interest in observing them, being scared or startled by them, or any in an array of encounters, they are a natural to our sunburnt country. 

To resolve the old argument we have with Americans over their habit of calling tortoises turtles, we need to look at the orders of reptiles and, lo and behold, testudines which includes both but the common term in brackets is - turtles. So perhaps it doesn't hurt not to distinguish.

As for crocodilian.

But the biggest order, taking in skinks, geckos, snakes.. is Order Squamata, or scaled reptiles
[legless lizards, dragons, monitors..]