Schneider’s skink is a stout, smooth-scaled skink, olive-grey or brownish above, often with golden-yellow spots or streaks, and always with a yellowish stripe running from below the eye to the hind leg. It lives on rocky ground, grassland and shrubland.
It turns up in the pet trade, where it is sometimes called the Berber skink. If you buy one, captive-bred stock should be the first choice.
For keepers: Needs a hot, dry enclosure with deep diggable substrate. Captive-bred animals only. Care guide →