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The American five-lined skink is small to medium-sized, growing to about 12.5 to 21.5 centimetres (4.9 to 8.5 in) total length (including tail). Young American five-lined skinks are dark brown to black with five distinctive white to yellowish stripes running along the body and a bright blue tail.
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 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.
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 ...
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.
The Okada's five-lined skink [2] or Far Eastern skink [1] (Plestiodon latiscutatus, Jap. オカダトカゲ Okada-Tokage) is a species of lizard which is endemic to ...
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 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;