Lined Supple Skink (Lined Writhing Skink)
The Lined Supple Skink, Lygosoma lineata (Scincidae) is a species endemic to India, widespread in the Western Ghats, but is not common anywhere within its range.
This skink has an elongate and slender body (up to 6cm long), short and weak limbs, each one with four digits only; and five or six distinctive brownish-golden lines on its body.
Lygosoma lineata is a diurnal skink, mostly seen under large boulders, loose soil associated with termite mounds and ant hills in open scrublands.
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