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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 ...
The middle stripe tends to be narrower than the others, and the dark areas between stripes are black in young skinks but become brown with age. A similar lizard, the common five-lined skink (Plestiodon fasciatus), is slightly smaller than the southeastern five-lined skink and has broader stripes. However, it is difficult to discriminate between ...
The name five-lined skink can refer to different species of skinks: Plestiodon fasciatus , the five-lined skink or eastern red-headed skink of North America Trachylepis quinquetaeniata , the five-lined mabuya of Africa
Common five-lined skink: Plestiodon fasciatus: Scincidae: Secure (S5) Southeastern five-lined skink: Plestiodon inexpectatus: Scincidae: Secure (S5) Broad-headed skink: Plestiodon laticeps: Scincidae: Secure (S5) Little brown skink: Scincella lateralis: Scincidae: Secure (S5) Eastern six-lined racerunner: Aspidocelis sexlineatus sexlineatus ...
The conspicuous coloring of species of Plestiodon is a survival trait: it attracts a predator's attention to the tail of the animal, which will break off when grabbed. A skink thus often manages to escape and hide under some rock, log, or fallen leaves while the predator still contemplates the wildly thrashing severed tail.
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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
As a family, skinks are cosmopolitan; species occur in a variety of habitats worldwide, apart from boreal and polar regions. Various species occur in ecosystems ranging from deserts and mountains to grasslands. A five-lined skink basking on a log in Forest Park. Many species are good burrowers.