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Northern Mole Skink
Plestiodon egregius similis
29.1119, -82.0157
Field Notes
Description:
About 4" long.
Habitat:
Found by my husband as he weeded our garden- originally Turkey Oak/Longleaf Pine Sandhill habitat.
Notes:
From Wikipedia:
The species is subdivided into five subspecies, including the nominotypical subspecies:
Florida Keys mole skink, P. e. egregius Baird, 1859: occurs only on some of the Florida Keys.
Cedar Key mole skink, P. e. insularis (Mount, 1965): occurs only on three islands at Cedar Key.
Bluetail mole skink, P. e. lividus (Mount, 1965): occurs only in interior central Florida; shares its Florida Scrub habitat with the Sand Skink.
Peninsula mole skink, P. e. onocrepis Cope, 1871.
Northern mole skink, P. e. similis (McConkey, 1957).
I love how each scale is edged with a fine black line. Such detail!
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