Reptilia · Squamata
Eutropis sibalomBarley, Diesmos, Siler, Martinez, Brown, 2020
Sibalom Sun Skink
Photograph by Forest Botial-Jarvis, CC BY, via iNaturalist
A ground-dwelling, day-active skink from the Oriental region.
Reptilia › Squamata › Scincidae › Eutropis
- Active
- Diurnal
- Lives
- Terrestrial
- Red List
- Data Deficient
What is known
19 sourced facts, each taken from a named scientific dataset. How to read these.
Cited from a dataset unless a row is marked otherwise.
Standing in the world
- Still living
- Extant
- Conservation status
- Data Deficient
- Status assessed · the year the Red List last looked
- 2022
The animal itself
- Limbs
- Four legs
- Venomous
- No
- Fangs
- None
How it lives
- Active
- Diurnal
- Where it lives
- Terrestrial
- Habitat
- Forest
- Region
- Oriental
- Mainland or island
- Found only on islands
considered to be multicarinata
"The few specimens that exist for this species were found on the forest floor in secondgrowth forest"
Breeding
- Average clutch
- 2eggs
Naming and history
- Suborder
- Sauria
- Infraorder
- Scincoidea
- Subspecies
- No
- Described by
- Barley, Diesmos, Siler, Martinez, Brown
- Moved to another genus · since it was first described
- No
- Described in
- 2020
- Type locality
- Philippines
What nobody knows
These are not gaps in our research. No scientific dataset records them for this species — and saying so is information you cannot get from a reference that simply leaves a field out.
- — Length snout to vent · greatest recorded
- — Length snout to vent · adult female mean
- — Length snout to vent · adult male mean
- — Length snout to vent · adult mean
- — Length nose to tail · greatest recorded
- — Female length · mean, nose to tail
- — Length nose to tail · adult male mean
- — Length nose to tail · adult mean
- — Largest female · snout to vent
- — Largest male · snout to vent
- — Largest female · shell length
- — Largest male · shell length
- — Hatchling length · snout to vent
- — Hatchling length · nose to tail
- — Largest juvenile · snout to vent
- — Largest juvenile · shell length
- — Egg length
- — Egg width
- — Body mass · greatest
- — Body mass · a typical adult
- — Body mass · adult female, mean
- — Body mass at hatching
- — Longest recorded life
- — Preferred body temperature · chosen in a laboratory gradient
- — Body temperature when active · measured in the wild
- — Diet
- — Eats arthropods
- — Eats vertebrates
- — Eats plant matter
- — How it hunts
- — Reproduction
- — How the young develop
- — Gestation or incubation
- — Smallest clutch recorded
- — Largest clutch recorded
- — Mean clutch · smallest reported
- — Mean clutch · largest reported
- — Clutches in a year
- — Clutches a year · fewest
- — Clutches a year · most
- — First breeds from · youngest recorded
- — First breeds by · oldest recorded
- — Hatchling length · smallest recorded
- — Hatchling length · largest recorded
- — Age at first breeding · female
- — Mature from · youngest recorded
- — Mature by · oldest recorded
- — Size at maturity · smallest recorded
- — Size at maturity · largest recorded
- — Body temp in the wild · lowest mean recorded
- — Body temp in the wild · highest mean recorded
- — Colour on the back
- — Pattern on the back
- — Pupil
- — Sex decided by
- — Population trend
- — Red List criteria
- — Biome
- — Active season · shortest recorded
- — Active season · longest recorded
- — Density · lowest recorded
- — Density · highest recorded
- — Home range · largest recorded
- — Active in
- — Lowest it lives · above sea level
- — Highest it lives · above sea level
- — Range size
Others in Scincidae
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This species as JSON · the whole dataset
Cite this page
The Reptile & Amphibian Encyclopedia (2026). Eutropis sibalom. Retrieved 2026-09-08, from https://www.allanglescreatures.com/species/eutropis-sibalom
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title = {Eutropis sibalom},
author = {{The Reptile & Amphibian Encyclopedia}},
year = {2026},
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}Sources
- Meiri, S. (2024). SquamBase — a database of squamate (Reptilia: Squamata) traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography. Public domain (CC0).
- Oskyrko, O. et al. (2024). ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles. Scientific Data. Used under CC BY 4.0.
- Catalogue of Life (dataset 3LR), used under CC BY.