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title: "Tree Skink"
description: "Egernia striolata — Répteis. The tree-crevice skink or tree skink (Egernia striolata) is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/tree-skink
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Tree Skink

> Egernia striolata — Répteis. The tree-crevice skink or tree skink (Egernia striolata) is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae.

- Scientific name: *Egernia striolata*
- Category: `reptiles` (Répteis)
- Habitats: `forest` (Floresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 1064
- Wikidata: [Q3049154](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3049154)
- iNaturalist taxon: [38591](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/38591)

## Names

- en: Tree Skink
- de: Baum-Stachelskink

## Countries with the most observations

AU (1015)

## Summary

The tree-crevice skink or tree skink (Egernia striolata) is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia and is found in the states of Victoria, the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia. E. striolata tend to live in crevices and cracks in hollow logs or rocks. They greatly prefer heterogeneous and structurally diverse habitats and their behavior changes depending on the habitat they live in.
They are moderately large lizards of the genus Egernia and are generally colored dark-black to grey-brown with a pale stripe going from their head to…

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

## Photo

![Tree Skink](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/tree-skink/medium.jpg)

Photo: julie burgher · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/240254116

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/tree-skink?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).