📸 PhotoPhoto: Peripitus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Common Bluetongue
Tiliqua scincoides (Common Bluetongue · ハスオビアオジタトカゲ)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Because it is docile and easy to tame, it is considered a good pet to keep (positive impacts on humans in ADW).
- 💡 In captivity, it also readily eats high-quality dog food and vegetables such as kale (ADW).
- 💡 An average weight of 493 g is the combined weight of a block and a half of store-bought tofu (about 300 g per block) (Comparison).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.
📖 1. Overview
The Common Bluetongue is a terrestrial lizard living mainly in Australia, famous for sticking out its blue tongue as a warning when threatened.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
It has a plump, cylindrical body with short legs and smooth overlapping scales that give a fish-like impression. Its back has alternating bands or blotches of dark brown and cream.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
An omnivore active during the day, it eats insects, other reptiles, plants, and fruit. It is ovoviviparous, giving birth to 10–15 young at a time, and when threatened it opens its mouth, sticks out its blue tongue, puffs up its body, and hisses.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2017) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/109481538/109481555
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • catalogueoflife.org — 56X27
- • iucnredlist.org — 109481555
- • wikidata.org — Q781954
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Immature eastern blue tongued lizard.jpg
- • animaldiversity.org — Tiliqua scincoides
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Kailah Thorn & Mark Hutchinson · CC0 1.0 (Congeneric silhouette — Tiliqua rugosa)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.