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Broad-headed Skink

Eumeces laticeps

Photo by Aimee
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Field Notes

Description:

Black with stripes

Species ID Suggestions

Broad-headed Skink

Eumeces laticeps
ConnorSharpe
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Comments (3)
annorion
I think this is a five lined skink (Eumeces fasciatus) http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/five-lined_skink.htm. When they are younger they are darker and have blue tails but they lighten as they get older and lose the blue.

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PublishedMarch 22, 2012

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