Five-lined Skink

And don't trust wikipedia! Check out: www.cnah.org http://www.tnwatchablewildlife.org/display2.cfm?habitat=&sort=aounumber&typename=Reptile&Taxonomicgroup=Reptile%20-%20Lizards http://apbrwww5.apsu.edu/reptatlas/frames_file.htm

In science, we try and just use one common name per species, the blue-tailed skink is a vernacular name for it. The are lots of other lizards with the blue-tails as juveniles. The most legit way to name this spotting would be Five-lined Skink (Plestiodon faciatus) And in the Description or Notes reference it as a Juvenile. *Also, in other comments I put Plethodon instead of Plestiodon...I must have had salamanders on the brain.

I agree that it is indeed a Plethodon faciatus, but the Blue-tailed skink is an Australian lizard.

with Plethodon faciatus, the common name is the Five-lined skink.

A great shot and spotting! Love the bright colour of his tail!