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The Great Plains skink, together with the broad-headed skink, is the largest skink of the genus Plestiodon. It reaches a length of 9 to 13 cm from snout to vent (SVL) or up to nearly 34 cm total length (including the tail). This lizard is light gray or beige in color; its dorsal scales have black or dark brown edges. The scales on the sides run ...
Plestiodon marginatus Hallowell, 1861 – Okinawa blue-tailed skink, Ousima skink; Plestiodon multilineatus (W. Tanner, 1957) – Chihuahuan skink; Plestiodon multivirgatus Hallowell, 1857 – many-lined skink; Plestiodon nietoi Feria-Ortiz & García-Vázquez, 2012; Plestiodon obsoletus Baird & Girard, 1852 – Great Plains skink
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 ...
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The western skink (Eumeces skiltonianus, Salish: šl̓šl̓če [4]) is a small, smooth-scaled lizard with relatively small limbs, measuring about 100 to 200 mm long. Western skinks are very adaptable. They spend much of their day basking in the sun. Their diet ranges widely, including spiders and beetles.
Other large members in the genus Plestiodon are a broad-headed skink (Plestiodon laticeps) and a Great Plains skink (Plestiodon obsoletus) with a maximum length of 32.4 cm (12.8 in) [163] and 34.9 cm (13.7 in) [164] and a SVL 14.3 cm (5.6 in) [163] and 14 cm (5.5 in) [165] respectively. The genus Chalcides includes many legless or almost ...
Great Plains skink; Prairie skink; Lesser earless lizard; Slender glass lizard; Pygmy short-horned lizard; Sagebrush lizard; Eastern fence lizard; Native lizards.
The Great Plains is a broad expanse ... and great plains skink (Plestiodon ... gritty habitat and not the grass itself which is linked to diet changes ...