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Other common names for P. fasciatus include blue-tailed skink (for juveniles) and red-headed skink (for adults). It is technically appropriate to call it the American five-lined skink to distinguish it from the African skink Trachylepis quinquetaeniata (otherwise known as five-lined mabuya) or the eastern red-headed skink to distinguish it from its western relative Plestiodon skiltonianus ...
Emoia caeruleocauda, commonly known as the Pacific bluetail skink or Pacific blue-tail skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. It is widespread in the Indo-West Pacific . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Cryptoblepharus egeriae, also known commonly as the blue-tailed shinning-skink, the Christmas Island blue-tailed shinning-skink, and the Christmas Island blue-tailed skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae that was once endemic to Christmas Island. The Christmas Island blue-tailed skink was discovered in 1888. [3]
Blue-tailed skink may refer to: Cryptoblepharus egeriae, a lizard native to Australia's Christmas Island; Plestiodon elegans, the five-striped blue-tailed skink, a lizard found in East-Asia; Plestiodon fasciatus, the five-lined skink of North America; Trachylepis margaritifera, the rainbow mabuya of Africa
The bluetail mole skink is a small, shiny, cylindrical lizard of a brownish color. Juveniles usually have a blue tail which makes up slightly more than half of the animal's total length. Regenerated tails and the tails of older individuals are typically pinkish.
Plestiodon longirostris Cope, 1861 – Bermuda skink, longnose skink, or the rock lizard; Plestiodon lotus Pavón-Vázquez et al., 2017; Plestiodon lynxe (Wiegmann, 1834) – oak forest skink; Plestiodon marginatus Hallowell, 1861 – Okinawa blue-tailed skink, Ousima skink; Plestiodon multilineatus (W. Tanner, 1957) – Chihuahuan skink
Cryptoblepharus daedalos Horner, 2007 – dappled snake-eyed skink; Cryptoblepharus egeriae (Boulenger, 1888) – Christmas Island blue-tailed shining-skink, blue-tailed skink, Christmas Island blue-tailed skink; Cryptoblepharus eximius Girard, 1857; Cryptoblepharus exochus Horner, 2007 – noble snake-eyed skink
Together with the Great Plains skink it is the largest of the "Plestiodon skinks", growing from a total length of 15 cm (5.9 in) to nearly 33 cm (13 in). A male broad-headed skink, illustration from Holbrook's North American Herpetology, 1842. The broad-headed skink gets its name from the wide jaws, giving the head a triangular appearance.