The Emerald Tree Skink (Lamprolepis smaragdina), sometimes (ambiguously) known as "green tree skink

Green tree skink

Green tree skink can refer to several skink species:* Lamprolepis smaragdina, widespread from East Asia to Melanesia, otherwise known as Emerald Tree Skink* Prasinohaema virens, endemic to New Guinea, otherwise known as Green Green-blooded Skink...

", dwells in arboreal forests in the Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

, Palawan

Palawan

Palawan is an island province of the Philippines located in the MIMAROPA region or Region 4. Its capital is Puerto Princesa City, and it is the largest province in the country in terms of total area of jurisdiction. The islands of Palawan stretch from Mindoro in the northeast to Borneo in the...

 and Sulu

Sulu Archipelago

The Sulu Archipelago is a chain of islands in the southwestern Philippines. This archipelago is considered to be part of the Moroland by the local rebel independence movement. This island group forms the northern limit of the Celebes Sea....

 archipelagoes as well as the Indo-Australian archipelago

Archipelago

An archipelago , sometimes called an island group, is a chain or cluster of islands. The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι- – arkhi- and πέλαγος – pélagos through the Italian arcipelago...

and the Solomon and Santa Cruz islands.

Eating mostly insects and other small creatures, although occasionally living of fruit and plants, they prefer bare tree trunks without climbing plants. Several have even been sighted on minute islands with very little greenery, the record being four palm trees.