Lissolepis coventryi
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~60%
The eastern mourning skink (Lissolepis coventryi), also known commonly as Coventry's spinytail skink and the swamp skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia. The specific name, coventryi, is in honor of Australian herpetologist Albert John Coventry.
L. coventryi is found in the Australian states of South Australia, Victoria, and possibly New South Wales. The preferred natural habitat of L. coventryi is freshwater wetlands such as marshes and swamps. L. coventryi has an average snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 10 cm (3.9 in), with a long tail, which is almost one and a half times SVL, 15 cm (5.9 in)).
L. coventryi is viviparous. Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350. Storr GM (1978). "The genus Egernia (Lacertilia, Scincidae) in Western Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum 6 (2): 147–187. (Egernia coventryi, new species, pp. 175–177, Plate 1).
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wilsons Promontory National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an Eastern Mourning Skink sighting in Wilsons Promontory National Park on a given day, based on 26 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 10th most-seen of the 14 reptiles we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report an Eastern Mourning Skink in Wilsons Promontory National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May–July and December, the lowest months.
Between 1 and 4 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Eastern Mourning Skink sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Wilsons Promontory National Park, in our data
Wilsons Promontory National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Eastern Mourning Skink sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Scincidae
The closest relatives of the Eastern Mourning Skink that you can see in Wilsons Promontory National Park (family Scincidae, Skinks) are Cool-temperate Water Skink (about 60%), White's Rock-skink (about 50%) and Blotched Bluetongue (about 40%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Eastern Mourning Skink is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Wilsons Promontory National Park (26 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
