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Red-eyed crocodile skinks are carnivorous with a particular taste for insects. The standard diet of red eye skinks consists of grubs, crickets, and most worms such as earth, wax, and meal. Animals in captivity are typically fed vitamin D3 to help maintain their scales and health, however overconsumption can lead to lethargy and illness.
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 ...
red-eyed crocodile skink, red-eyed bush crocodile skink: Tribolonotus gracilis de Rooij, 1909: New Guinea white-eyed crocodile skink: Tribolonotus novaeguineae (Schlegel, 1834) Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea Tribolonotus parkeri Rittmeyer & Austin, 2017: Buka Island Giant spiny skink, Poncelet's helmet skink: Tribolonotus ponceleti Kinghorn ...
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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.
The social bond and parental attention of reptiles appears equal in circulus containing egg-laying reptiles compared to those with live bearing reptiles. Another case of egg-laying lizards with a circulus is the red-eyed crocodile skink (Tribolonotus gracilis). The female will sit on the egg and guard the young.
The white-eyed crocodile skink (Tribolonotus novaeguineae) is a species of insectivorous lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is found in Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea . [ 2 ]
The (northern) coal skink was first described by Baird in 1850; the southern subspecies P. a. pluvialis was identified by Cope in 1880. They are the near the ancestral form for the fasciatus group. [4] The southern coal skink as a subspecies has posterior supralabials with light centers and dark edges, producing a spotted appearance.