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

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What

Broad-headed Skink Plestiodon laticeps

Observer

jplarry

Date

May 10, 2012 02:11 PM EDT

Place

Poplar Ridge, Illinois, United States (Google, OSM)

Description

Broad-Headed Skink (Plestiodon laticeps) from Snake Road, Illinois

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What

broad headed skink

Observer

keegansmith417

Date

Apr 25, 2012

Place

cedar lake (Google, OSM)

Description

My favorite native skink..The broad-headed skink! (Eumeces laticeps)

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What

Broad-headed Skink Plestiodon laticeps

Observer

stonewaresnake

Date

May 12, 2012

Place

Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens (Google, OSM)

Description

This wild skink was basking on a park bench when I found him. He was about 7 inches long.

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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).

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