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Narrow - Banded Sand Swimmer

The Narrow Banded Sand Swimmer
The Narrow Banded Sand Swimmer​ is a small lizard that has dark bands on its tail.
It's small head is shaped like a cone, it also has light brown circular ears. Its body has various bands of colours for camouflage against its predators. The Sand swimmer's diet includes invertebrates and other small lizards. It dwells in sand country and (sometimes) desert woodland on the north area of Australia.
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Narrow Banded Sand Swimmer habitat.
Sourced from AROD.com.au
The Sand Swimmer has few structural feature adaptions These include:
​1.  The Sand Swimmer has a cone like nose for burrowing through desert sand​
A Sand Swimmer's nose Compared to real cone
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2. It has glossy scales to limit friction against sand
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The Narrow Branded Sand Swimmer Also has some interesting behavioural features such as burrowing into sand to escape from predators also to hide from predators it can blend into its common surrounding environment: sand
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​Its Predators include
  1.Pythons
  2. Barn owl
   
  3.
Other snakes




Altogether the Narrow Banded Sand Swimmer is an interesting common sand country skink
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  • Spinifex
  • Desert Bloodwood Tree
  • Ghost Gum
  • Sturt's Desert Pea
  • Silver Cassia
  • Bloodwood Gall
  • Spinifex Hopping Mouse
  • Thorny Devil
  • Dingo
  • Barn Owl
  • Emu
  • Perentie
  • Bandy Bandy
  • Budgerigar
  • Bearded Dragon
  • Red-capped Robin
  • Barking Spider
  • Narrow-banded Sand Swimmer
  • Greater Stick Nest Rat
  • Southern Marsupial Mole
  • Spencer's Burrowing frog
  • Camel
  • Smooth Knob-tailed gecko
  • Bilby
  • Red Kangaroo
  • Koala Example