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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 ...
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
Emoia caeruleocauda, commonly known as the Pacific bluetail skink or Pacific blue-tail skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. It is widespread in the Indo-West Pacific . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
By 2006, the Christmas Island blue-tailed skink was on the endangered animals list, [5] and by 2010 the Christmas Island blue-tailed skink was extinct in the wild. From 2009 to 2010, Parks Australia and Taronga Zoo started a captive breeding program, which has prevented total extinction of the species.
Plestiodon longirostris Cope, 1861 – Bermuda skink, longnose skink, or the rock lizard; Plestiodon lotus Pavón-Vázquez et al., 2017; Plestiodon lynxe (Wiegmann, 1834) – oak forest skink; Plestiodon marginatus Hallowell, 1861 – Okinawa blue-tailed skink, Ousima skink; Plestiodon multilineatus (W. Tanner, 1957) – Chihuahuan skink
Some species of skinks are quite small; Scincella lateralis typically ranges from 7.5 to 14.5 cm (3 to 5 + 3 ⁄ 4 in), more than half of which is the tail. [7] Most skinks, though, are medium-sized, with snout-to-vent lengths around 12 cm (4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in), although some grow larger; the Solomon Islands skink (Corucia zebrata) is the largest ...
Plestiodon elegans, elegant skink, five-striped blue-tailed skink (juvenile), or Shanghai skink (East Asia) Plestiodon fasciatus, common five-lined skink; Plestiodon gilberti, Gilbert's skink (North America) Plestiodon inexpectatus, southeastern five-lined skink; Plestiodon kishinouyei, Kishinoue's giant skink; Plestiodon lagunensis, San Lucan ...
Cryptoblepharus cygnatus Horner, 2007 – Swanson's snake-eyed skink; Cryptoblepharus daedalos Horner, 2007 – dappled snake-eyed skink; Cryptoblepharus egeriae (Boulenger, 1888) – Christmas Island blue-tailed shining-skink, blue-tailed skink, Christmas Island blue-tailed skink; Cryptoblepharus eximius Girard, 1857