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Five-lined Skink
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- Order: Squamata (scaled reptiles)
- Suborder: Lacertilia (=Sauria) (lizards)
- Family: Scincidae (skinks)
- Genus: Eumeces (North American skinks)
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| Also known as:
"scorpion" (young have blue tails, and are thought by
some to be poisonous) |
Scientific Name: Eumeces fasciatus
(Linnaeus, 1758) |
| Habitat: Open woodland
to forest edge. |
Eu="good," mekos="length,"
fasciatus="striped"
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| Length: To 8.5 inches total. |
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| Food: Various insects
and arachnids. |
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| The skink at right was observed
in the Audubon
Swamp climbing a tree trunk. I think he was on the
wooden walkway until I approached, at which time he fled. He
was about 5 inches long. |
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| The blue tail is indicative of a
young individual. The young of the various Eumeces species
typically have brightly colored tails and bodies (in this case
black and white stripes on the body) which fade with age. |
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| There are more pictures of
five-lined skinks on the Missouri,
Arkansas, and North
Carolina pages. |
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