Eutropis longicaudata, the longtail mabuya or long-tailed sun skink, is a species of skink. It is found in southern China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, and Peninsular Malaysia.
Some populations have been found to exhibit paternal care in response to predation by egg-eating snakes. Though some females are documented, to eat their clutch of eggs, when continually threatened by predators especially when threatened by O. formosanus. Wen-San Huang, Predation risk of whole-clutch filial cannibalism in a tropical skink with maternal care, Behavioral Ecology, Volume 19, Issue 6, November-December 2008, Pages 1069–1074, https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arn109
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External links Flickr Photo from Taiwan by Liang Ching Hou Flickr Photo from Thailand by Michael Cota