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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 ...
The African five-lined skink (Trachylepis quinquetaeniata, formerly Mabuya quinquetaeniata), or rainbow mabuya, is a north-central African species of skink lizard.. T. margaritifera is another closely related skink species that is also called the "rainbow skink" (although it occurs primarily in Eastern Africa); T. margaritifera, overall, possesses more colourful, "rainbow"-like scales (as ...
Five-lined skink: Plestiodon fasciatus: Least concern: Total length of 5–8.5 inches (13–22 cm); maximum body length of 3.4 inches (8.6 cm); brown to black body with short legs; juveniles have a blueish tail that turns to grey with maturation [42] [43] Prairie skink: Plestiodon septentrionalis: Least concern
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.
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 ...
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 Japan . [ 3 ]
Trachylepis striata, African striped skink, Kruger Park Trachylepis albilabris, Gabon. Trachylepis is a skink genus in the subfamily Mabuyinae found mainly in Africa.Its members were formerly included in the "wastebin taxon" Mabuya, and for some time in Euprepis.