Tiliqua

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.

Biological diversity in the East Melanesian Islands 2008

-- 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

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

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

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

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

Bluetongue lizards (Tiliqua scinoides) WildThings has

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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.

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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

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