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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 broad-headed skink or broadhead skink (Plestiodon laticeps) is species of lizard, endemic to the southeastern United States. [1] The broadhead skink occurs in sympatry with the five-lined skink (Plestiodon fasciatus) and Southeastern five-lined skink (Plestiodon inexpectatus) in forest of the Southeastern United States. All three species ...
Plestiodon indubitus (Taylor, 1933) – Mexican short-nosed skink; Plestiodon inexpectatus (Taylor, 1932) – southeastern five-lined skink; Plestiodon japonicus (W. Peters, 1864) Plestiodon kishinouyei (Stejneger, 1901) – Kishinouye's giant skink; Plestiodon kuchinoshimensis Kurita & Hikida, 2014; Plestiodon lagunensis (Van Denburgh, 1895 ...
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 ...
Eastern six-lined racerunner Aspidoscelis sexlineata sexlineata; Family: Scincidae. Coal skink Plestiodon anthracinus; Common five-lined skink Plestiodon fasciatus; Southeastern five-lined skink Plestiodon inexpectatus; Broad-headed skink Plestiodon laticeps; Little brown skink Scincella lateralis; Family: Anguidae
Common five-lined skink (Plestiodon fasciatus) Gilbert's skink (Plestiodon gilberti) Southeastern five-lined skink (Plestiodon inexpectatus) San Lucan skink (Plestiodon lagunensis) Broad-headed skink (Plestiodon laticeps) Oak forest skink (Plestiodon lynxe) Many-lined skink (Plestiodon multivirgatus) Great Plains skink (Plestiodon obsoletus)
The species is subdivided into five subspecies, including the nominotypical subspecies: Florida Keys mole skink, P. e. egregius Baird, 1859: occurs only on some of the Florida Keys. Cedar Key mole skink, P. e. insularis (Mount, 1965): occurs only on three islands at Cedar Key.