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Common Bluetongue (Tiliqua scincoides) – Big mouth, more painful than Sleepy, hangs on longer. Eastern Water Dragon (Physignathus lesueuri) – real pain here, it clamps on like a jagged nutcracker and adjusts its grip occasionally, mashing a finger fairly convincingly. These could swim to the bottom of a swimming pool and stay there for three hours. Central Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps) – a bit of a sweetie, this one. I think these only bit me when they were eager for whatever food I was giving them.<\/em><\/p>\n Common Bearded Dragon (Pogona barbata)<\/em> – more likely to bite and bite harder than the central beardies. Still not too bad.<\/p>\n Golden Water Skink (Eulamprus quoyii)<\/em> – A beast. <\/em>A small skink, looks fairly harmless until it latches onto your hand and doesn’t let go. A black fingernail at the very least. Several species of striped skink also bit me but I could never work out an identification to species level. They were innocuous compared to the Golden Water Skink.<\/p>\n Cunningham’s Skink (Egernia cunninghami) <\/em>– Painful. Another one that grabs and doesn’t let go except to adjust its grip when it senses that you’ve lost a bit of attention.<\/p>\n Frilled Lizard (Chalamydosaurus kingii) – <\/em>Afer all that energy expended on the threat display, the frilled lizard desn’t seem to have much left for the bite. A quick nip at most. Can draw blood but its heart’s not in it.<\/p>\n Long-nosed water dragon (Physignathus longirostris<\/em>) – An amazing beast. We called them bicycle lizards as they ran on two legs. I don’t know whether they can do the basilisk trick on water. Sharp, painful bite that they inflicted quickly, then tried to run away.<\/p>\n Stoke’s (Gidgee) Skink (Egernia stokesii<\/em>) – similar in appearance to the Cunningham’s Skink but nowhere near as virulent in the bite department. Gidgees didn’t seem to have that killer instinct of hanging on and on.<\/p>\n Gould’s (Sand) Goanna (Varanus gouldii) – Surprisingly non-injurious considering the size of the beast. Draws blood but then calls it quits. My brother was bitten by a Perentie (Varanus giganteus), which pierced an artery and sent spurts of blood the length of an EK Holden. \u00a0He needed several stitches.<\/em><\/p>\n Pygmy Ridgetailed Monitor (Varanus acanthurus brachyurus) – needs a very good excuse to bite someone. It’s small and inoffensive. I think bites were mistakes, when I had been preparing mince mixed with egg and the poor thing couldn’t tell the difference between my hand and its food.<\/em><\/p>\n I’m thinking of producing a classification of Australian Lizards based on their bites… Shingleback, Sleepy Lizard (Tiliqua rugosa) – huge mouth but surprisingly painless, lets go immediately Common Bluetongue (Tiliqua scincoides) – Big mouth, more painful than Sleepy, hangs on longer. 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