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title: "Pijnappelskink"
description: "Tiliqua rugosa — Reptielen. Tiliqua rugosa, most commonly known as the shingleback skink, shingleback lizard, bobtail lizard, and the two-headed skink (often simply shingleback or bobtail); is a short-tailed, slow-moving species of blue-tongued skink (genus Tiliqua) endemic to Australia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/shingleback
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pijnappelskink

> Tiliqua rugosa — Reptielen. Tiliqua rugosa, most commonly known as the shingleback skink, shingleback lizard, bobtail lizard, and the two-headed skink (often simply shingleback or bobtail); is a short-tailed, slow-moving species of blue-tongued skink (genus Tiliqua) endemic to Australia.

- Scientific name: *Tiliqua rugosa*
- Category: `reptiles` (Reptielen)
- Habitats: `savanna` (Savanne)
- iNaturalist observations: 11960
- Wikidata: [Q572677](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q572677)
- iNaturalist taxon: [37460](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/37460)

## Names

- en: Shingleback
- de: Tannenzapfenechse
- fr: Scinque rugueux
- nl: Pijnappelskink
- pl: Scynk krótkoogonowy

## Countries with the most observations

AU (11531)

## Summary

Tiliqua rugosa, most commonly known as the shingleback skink, shingleback lizard, bobtail lizard, and the two-headed skink (often simply shingleback or bobtail); is a short-tailed, slow-moving species of blue-tongued skink (genus Tiliqua) endemic to Australia. Three of its four recognised subspecies are found in Western Australia, where the bobtail name is most frequently used. The fourth subspecies, T. rugosa asper, is the only one native to eastern Australia, where it goes by the common name of the eastern shingleback.
Apart from bobtail and shingleback, a variety of other common names are used in different states…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiliqua_rugosa

## Photo

![Pijnappelskink](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/shingleback/medium.jpg)

Photo: Max Tibby · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/95008289

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/shingleback?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).