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unusual facts about skink


Clinton Tyree

He became a wild hermit, living first in Harney County (a fictional Florida county), where he adopted the name "Skink,” and was simply viewed as an eccentric, albeit a potentially violent one.


Archbold Biological Station

The Station supports 19 federally listed threatened species, including the Sand Skink (Neoseps reynoldsi) and 13 endemic plant species.

C. minutus

Chalcides minutus, the small three-toed skink, a lizard species found in Morocco and western Algeria

Dasia griffini

Dasia griffini, commonly known as Griffin's keel-scaled tree skink, is a species of tree skink endemic to central and northern Palawan and southern Mindoro in the Philippines.

Edward Loranus Rice

The development of the skull of the skink, Eumeces quinquelineatus L. Journal of Morphology 34(1):120-243.

Five-lined Skink

Plestiodon fasciatus, the Five-lined Skink or Eastern Red-headed Skink of North America

Green blood

Prasinohaema virens, also known as the Green green-blooded skink, native to New Guinea

Heathi

Mabuya heathi, Schmidt & Inger, 1951, the Brazilian mabuya, a skink species in the genus Mabuya

Mabuya maculata

Mabuya maculata is an obsolete name for the skink Trachylepis maculata.

Madascincus arenicola

Madascincus arenicola is an extant species of skink described in 2011, and indigenous to the Ampombofofo and Forêt d'Orangea regions of Antsiranana Province, in northern Madagascar.

Mokohinau skink

The skink occupies broadleaf forest and low scrub, usually amongst boulders and rock screes.

Murray Hill, Christmas Island

Vertebrates include geckos such as Cyrtodactylus and Lepidodactylus listeri, and skinks, specifically the Cryptoblepharus egeriae (Blue-tailed Skink), and Emoia nativitatus (Forest Skink); major invertebrates are also present, such as the robber crab, and the little nipper Geograpsus grayi.

Oceanic dispersal

Similarly, skinks of the related genera Mabuya and Trachylepis apparently both floated across the Atlantic from Africa to South America and Fernando de Noronha, respectively, during the last 9 Ma.

Ocellated Skink

Chalcides ocellatus, the Ocellated Skink, found around the Mediterranean

Prairie Skink

Southern prairie skink, P. s. obtusirostris (Bocourt, 1879), originally described as Eumeces obtusirostris.

Rainbow skink

Lampropholis delicata from Australia, otherwise known as Garden Skink

S. lateralis

Scincella lateralis, the little brown skink or ground skink, a small skink species found throughout much of the eastern half of the United States and into northern Mexico

San Lucan Skink

The San Lucan Skink (Plestiodon lagunensis) is a skink (a type of lizard) native to the Baja California peninsula.

Sinbad skink

It is one of two species of New Zealand Skink found in the Fiordland region of the South Island that lives exclusively in the alpine zone, the other being the closely related and morphlogically similar Barrier skink, Oligosoma judgei.

The Sinbad Skink, Oligosoma pikitanga is a rare species of medium sized skink endemic to New Zealand where it lives in an alpine habitat in Sinbad Gully, in Fiordland National Park.

Slevini

Emoia slevini, Brown & Falanruw, 1972, the Slevin's emoia, Slevin's skink, Marianas emoia, a reptile species in the genus Emoia

Whangamata

Several rare species were displaced or exterminated for the development, including the rare Oligosoma moco skink.


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