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Plestiodon elegans, the five-striped blue-tailed skink or Shanghai elegant skink, is a species of skink. It is found in China, northern Vietnam, Taiwan, and the Senkaku Islands of Japan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
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.
Plestiodon chinensis, Chinese skink (East Asia: China, Korea, Japan) Plestiodon colimensis (Mexico) Plestiodon copei (Mexico) Plestiodon coreensis, Korean big skink (Korea) Plestiodon dugesii (Mexico) - rare; Plestiodon egregius, mole skink; Plestiodon elegans, elegant skink, five-striped blue-tailed skink (juvenile), or Shanghai skink (East ...
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
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Chinese skink (Plestiodon chinensis) Shanghai skink (Plestiodon elegans) Ladakh ground skink (Scincella ladacensis) Plestiodon liui; Pope's skink (Plestiodon popei) Hong Kong skink (Plestiodon quadrilineatus) Vietnam skink (Plestiodon tamdaoensis) Plestiodon tunganus; Barbour's ground skink (Scincella barbouri) Doria's ground skink (Scincella ...
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 fasciatus on boardwalk at Francis Beidler Forest Detail of head. The (American) five-lined skink (Plestiodon fasciatus) is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to North America. It is one of the most common lizards in the eastern U.S. and one of the seven native species of lizards in Canada.