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    • Broadhead Skink
  • English
    • Broad-headed Skink
    • Broadhead Skink
  • Scientific names
    • Plestiodon laticeps
    • Eumeces laticeps
    • Scincus bicolor
    • Scincus laticeps

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What

Broad-headed Skink Plestiodon laticeps

Observer

greglasley

Date

May 16, 2013

Description

Broad-headed Skink
Martin Dies State Park,
Jasper Co., Texas
16 May 2013

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Broad-headed Skink Plestiodon laticeps

Observer

toby

Date

May 13, 2013 01:33 PM CDT

Description

Basking. Very tame for a laticeps.

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Broad-headed Skink Plestiodon laticeps

Observer

musicwolf

Date

May 12, 2013

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Observer

fm5050

Date

May 5, 2013 05:41 PM EDT

Description

Great Fall National Park, MD May 5, 2013

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Observer

botanygirl

Date

May 5, 2013

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Observer

alejandra13

Date

May 1, 2013

Description

Found it on a tree trunk hiding between 2 dividing portions of the trunk.

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What

Broad-headed Skink Plestiodon laticeps

Observer

kylejones

Date

Apr 24, 2013 04:40 PM EDT

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Observer

screws

Date

May 26, 2012

Description

He was so big!

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Broad-headed Skink Plestiodon laticeps

Observer

leigh

Date

May 20, 2008

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Observer

kucycads

Date

Sep 2, 2007

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What

Broad-headed Skink Plestiodon laticeps

Date

Apr 15, 1989

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What

Broad-headed Skink Plestiodon laticeps

Observer

toby

Date

May 10, 2009
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Description from Wikipedia

The Broad-headed Skink (Eumeces laticeps) is — together with the Great Plains Skink — the largest of the Eumeces-skinks, growing to a total length of 15 centimetres (5.9 in) to nearly 43 centimetres (17 in).

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Conservation Summary

    Source: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/spatial-data. Downloaded March 2011.