Common Name
Friendly Sunskink
Alternate name
Secretive Skink
Comment
Probably uncommon and restricted.
Stronghold population
False
Regionally significant/rationale
False
Restricted distribution/rationale
False
Local distribution
Patchy distribution - dry and wet eucalypt habitat - prefers moist habitats with leaf litter - absent from urban and disturbed habitats
Known location
Bannockburn, Willow Vale, Norwell, Beenleigh, Oxenford, Lamington NP, Jacobs Well, Mudgeeraba, Ormea
Other locality
Not much is known about the status of this small shy skink. It is probably more widespread than the records indicate, occuring in small scattered colonies in open forest.
General ecology
Eucalypt forest, heath, rainforest margins.
Specific ecology
Forages in leaf litter.
Habitat comment
Can be locally very common, but it is very patchily distributed and generally uncommon.
