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  2. Plestiodon laticeps - Wikipedia

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    Together with the Great Plains skink it is the largest of the "Plestiodon skinks", growing from a total length of 15 cm (5.9 in) to nearly 33 cm (13 in). A male broad-headed skink, illustration from Holbrook's North American Herpetology, 1842. The broad-headed skink gets its name from the wide jaws, giving the head a triangular appearance.

  3. Plestiodon anthracinus - Wikipedia

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    It is a four-lined skink whose light stripes extend onto the tail. The broad dark lateral stripe is 4–4.5 scales wide and there are no light lines on top of the head. The dorsolateral light stripe is on the edges of the 3rd and 4th scale rows, counting from midline of back. One postmental scale is present.

  4. Plestiodon - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. These skinks get swollen heads, climb trees and sometimes ...

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    Besides on the ground, look for them on the branches of trees, foraging or soaking up the sun.

  6. Plestiodon fasciatus - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. Great Plains skink - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. 32 brachycephalic animal breeds - AOL

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    They typically weigh less than 2.5lb and have a compact body, short neck, and broad head with a round face. It’s certainly a cute little bunny but this brachycephalic head shape can cause dental ...

  9. Western skink - Wikipedia

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    The western skink seems to prefer a somewhat moist environment, although it can also be found on dry hillsides. Frequents grassland, broken chaparral, pinon-juniper and juniper-sage woodland, and open pine-oak and pine forests. [10] The soil of its nest chambers is invariably moist. Standing water is apparently not required.

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