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Broad-headed Skink

Eumeces laticeps

Photo by Shaina
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Field Notes

Description:

This is the first time I spotted one of these in my garden. We usually see blue-tailed skinks, but he was quite a great deal bigger and had this amazing crimson color on his head. It looked like his tail had been damaged and is regrowing.

Notes:

Saw another one of these recently (March 14, 2012) curled up on a bald cypress stump amidst some poison ivy, sunning himself at a forest trail.

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CharleneLavine
May 17,2014 We have one on our patio. We didn't know what it was. About 12 inch's long.

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