Five lined Skink (Eumeces fasciatus)

Five-lined Skink, Eumeces fasciatus, adult male. Location: Durham County, North Carolina
Photograph by Patrick Coin. Some rights reserved. (view image details)

Five lined Skink | Eumeces fasciatus photo

five-lined skink (Eumeces fasciatus) taken in Shenandoah National Park
Photograph by Michael Holroyd. License: Public Domain. (view image details)

Five lined Skink | Eumeces fasciatus photo

Five-lined Skink, Eumeces fasciatus. Showing the two enlarged postlabial scales, characteristic of this species. Orange County, North Carolina
Photograph by Patrick Coin. Some rights reserved. (view image details)

FIVE LINED SKINK FACTS

Classification

Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata (Sauria)
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Eumeces
Species:	fasciatus
Common Name:	Five lined Skink

Relatives in same Genus
  Mole Skink (E. egregius)
  Gilbert's Skink (E. gilberti)
  Southeastern Five lined Skink (E. inexpectatus)
  Broad-headed Skink (E. laticeps)
  Great Plains Skink (E. obsoletus)
  Prairie Skink (E. septentrionalis)
  Western Skink (E. skiltonianus)
  Four lined Skink (E. tetragrammus)

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