Description
The Eastern Water Skink (Eulamprus quoyii) is also known as the Golden Water Skink, or simply as the Water Skink. Skinks look like true lizards, but most species have no pronounced neck, and their legs are relatively small. They grow to about 30cm, and can be found in the coastal rivers and creeks of New South Wales and Queensland, and inland in the Murray-Darling River System into Victoria and South Australia. They bear live young (viviparous) and can lose their tail as a defense mechanism.