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  • English
    • five-lined skink
    • Common Five-lined Skink
    • Red-headed Skink
    • Blue-tailed Skink
  • Scientific names
    • Plestiodon fasciatus
    • Eumeces fasciatus
    • Lacerta fasciata
    • Lacerta quinquelineata

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Common Five-lined Skink Plestiodon fasciatus

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greglasley

Date

May 17, 2013

Description

Common Five-lined Skink
Plestiodon fasciatus
male
Sabine National Forest,
Sabine Co., Texas
17 May 2013

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greglasley

Date

May 16, 2013

Description

Five-lined Skink
Martin Dies State Park,
Jasper Co., Texas
16 May 2013

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Common Five-lined Skink Plestiodon fasciatus

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awebster

Date

May 4, 2013 11:32 AM EDT

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Common Five-lined Skink Plestiodon fasciatus

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awebster

Date

May 4, 2013 09:18 AM EDT

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Common Five-lined Skink Plestiodon fasciatus

Observer

tsoleau

Date

Apr 30, 2013

Place

athens, ga (Google, OSM)

Description

This was my first time in Georgia but I think this is right.

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aroper532

Date

Sep 22, 2011

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Common Five-lined Skink Plestiodon fasciatus

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ericleon

Date

May 3, 2013 06:31 PM CDT

Description

Found underneath a rock. Temperature 70 degrees with sunny sky. Temps in the 40's the night passed drove many things under rocks. I also saw a spiny lizard under the rock next to the skink.

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raindrops

Date

Apr 13, 2013

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alejandra13

Date

May 1, 2013

Description

on a tree

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Common Five-lined Skink Plestiodon fasciatus

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jacobkalsnes

Date

Apr 7, 2013 09:40 AM CDT

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weberbirding

Date

May 15, 2010

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Common Five-lined Skink Plestiodon fasciatus

Observer

raindrops

Date

Apr 6, 2013

Description

Time: ~3PM Weather: Sunny
This Plestiodon was on a pine tree trunk in a mainly pine forest near a salt marsh.

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Description from Wikipedia

The (American) Five-lined Skink (Eumeces fasciatus) is one of the most common lizards in the eastern U.S. and one of the five species of lizards in Canada. Other common names include Blue-tailed Skink (for juveniles) and Red-headed Skink (for adults).

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