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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Scincidae — the stump-tailed skinks.
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Examples
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Thus, the hotspot contains classic examples of relatively recent adaptive radiation typical of oceanic islands, such as the white-eyes (family Zosteropidae) and monarch flycatchers (family Monarchidae), but also carries some odd colonizers from times past such as the giant prehensile-tailed skink (Corucia zebrata), whose closest living relatives are the blue-tongued skinks (genus Tiliqua) of Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia.
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-- The Australian scincids Egernia and Tiliqua, which have been separated for over 20 million years (as demonstrated by fossils) can still hybridise.
The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas Darren Naish 2006
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Tiliqua reevesii, Gray Annals of Natural History 1 292?
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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Tiliqua entrecasteaux, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 292.?
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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Several small lizards (Tiliqua), probably only varieties of the same species, amused us with the quickness of their motions when hunting for insects on the sunny slopes near the water-holes, and on the bark of the fallen trees; some were striped, others spotted, and there were some of a simple brownish iridescent colour.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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A pretty lizard (Tiliqua) of small size, with yellowish spots on a brown ground, was caught, and seemed to be plentiful here about.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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Bluetongue lizards (Tiliqua scinoides) WildThings has
WN.com - Articles related to Prison reform won't work 'in real world', say Tory MPs 2010
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Bluetongue lizards (Tiliqua scinoides) WildThings has a licence to breed bluetongues and release year-old offspring on safe residential sites in Ku-ring-gai.
WN.com - Articles related to Prison reform won't work 'in real world', say Tory MPs 2010
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Tiliqua buchananii, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 291.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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Tiliqua australis, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 291.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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