Skink, Giant Cyclodus

Cyclodus gigas. “They are harmless creatures, some inches long, natives mostly of warm countries, will small, sometimes rudimentary limbs, and generally smooth scales.” —Whitney, 1889

This illustration features a skink crawling on rocks with grass in the background.

Keywords

scales, lizard, skink, scale, Reptile, striped, crawling, crawl, cyclodus gigas, giant cyclodus

Galleries

Snakes and Lizards

Source

William Dwight Whitney, PhD, LLD The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1895) 5673

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