Coal Skink vs. Little Brown Skink

Both have a dark band along each side. On a Coal Skink the band is broad and edged above and below by thin pale lines. A Little Brown Skink is smaller and slimmer, with short legs, a plain golden-bronze back and a single dark stripe along each side with no pale lines beside it.

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