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Field Notes

Description:

A shiny silver/gray/brown salamander or skink with a red nose. A dark stripe stripe on either side of its body extended from head to tail.

Habitat:

Discovered when a lid was lifted off a utility port to reveal pipes. This organism was resting on the mud, with several other small organisms of the same type, one of which was speckled. On a family farm, on the bluffs above the west branch of the Red River

Notes:

It quickly moved to hide under a wedge of mud a few inches away.

Species ID Suggestions

Ground Skink

Scincella lateralis
ArisL
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Broad-headed Skink

Plestiodon laticeps

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John B.
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Comments (1)
John B.
I first thought that this skink was Plestiodon gilberti, but the geographical range was pretty much limited to California, Nevada and Arizona. However, Plestiodon laticeps is present in the southeastern states of the United States. There is a pretty good spotting in Project Noah, which might help - https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/272026008
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PublishedJune 3, 2023

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