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The fire skink is a fairly large species of skink, reaching up to 37 cm (15 in) in total length (including tail). [2] The most notable aspect of the fire skink's appearance is its vivid, bright colors. Smooth, gold scales adorn the fire skink's back, while red and black bars set against a silver background line its sides.
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 ...
The night skink, nocturnal desert-skink or striated egernia (Liopholis striata) is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to western Australia . [ 2 ]
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Crepuscular, a classification of animals that are active primarily during twilight, making them similar to nocturnal animals. Diurnality, plant or animal behavior characterized by activity during the day and sleeping at night. Cathemeral, a classification of organisms with sporadic and random intervals of activity during the day or night.
Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae, a family in the infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different taxonomic ...
Mochlus fernandi (Burton, 1836) – fire skink; Mochlus grandisonianus Lanza & Carfi, 1966 – Lanza's writhing skink; Mochlus guineensis (W. Peters, 1879) – Guinean forest skink; Mochlus hinkeli Wagner, Böhme, Pauwels & Schmitz, 2009 – Hinkel's red-sided skink, Hinkel's red-flanked skink; Mochlus laeviceps (W. Peters, 1874) – common ...
Cryptoblepharus species, some of which are often seen in urban environments, are commonly named as fence skinks, or by characteristics such as their lack of eyelids, snake-eyed skinks, [6] or as shining-skinks for their glossy skins.