''Carinascincus orocryptus'', the heath cool-skink, mountain skink or Tasmanian mountain skink, is a

skink Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae, a family in the infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different taxonomic genera, the family Scincidae is one of the most diverse families of lizards. Ski ...

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

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Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

. It is

viviparous Among animals, viviparity is development of the embryo inside the body of the parent. This is opposed to oviparity which is a reproductive mode in which females lay developing eggs that complete their development and hatch externally from the m ...

and mainly found in

alpine Alpine may refer to any mountainous region. It may also refer to: Places Europe * Alps, a European mountain range ** Alpine states, which overlap with the European range Australia * Alpine, New South Wales, a Northern Village * Alpine National Pa ...

areas, though occurring down to sea-level in the south-west of the state.TPWS: Wildlife of Tasmania – Mountain Skink
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References

Reptiles of Tasmania Reptiles described in 1988 Skinks of Australia Carinascincus Endemic fauna of Tasmania Taxa named by Mark Norman Hutchinson Taxa named by Terry D. Schwaner Taxa named by Kathryn Medlock {{skink-stub