Northern (red) and southern (gold) prairie skink ranges
Synonyms
Eumeces septentrionalis
The prairie skink (Plestiodon septentrionalis) is a species of skink endemic to the prairies east of the Rocky Mountains in North America. It is one of only seven species of lizards that occur in Canada.
^Hammerson, G. A. (2007). "Plestiodon septentrionalis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007. IUCN: e.T64239A12757599. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T64239A12757599.en. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
The prairieskink (Plestiodon septentrionalis) is a species of skink endemic to the prairies east of the Rocky Mountains in North America. It is one of...
genus Eumeces (family Scincidae) comprises four African to Middle-Eastern skink species. Recently two taxonomic revisions have been made regarding the 19th...
Brooding and protection of eggs do occur in some species. The female prairieskink uses respiratory water loss to maintain the humidity of the eggs which...
Wisconsin status Picture Common five-lined skink Plestiodon fasciatus Least concern Common Prairieskink Plestiodon septentrionalis Least concern Special...
Plestiodon is a genus of lizards in the family Scincidae (skinks). The genus contains many species formerly classified under the genus Eumeces, except...
counties, including two rare skinks, the southern prairieskink (Plestiodon septentrionalis) in the west and the coal skink (Plestiodon anthracinus) in...
Program. p. 1. Retrieved July 31, 2011. Harding 1997, p. 229 "Five-lined Skink (Plestiodon fasciatus)". Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved...
desert in the south and west, mountains in the far west, and grassland prairie in the north. This vast contrast in biomes makes Texas home to an extremely...
in prairie, steppe, and grassland. It is the western part of the Interior Plains, which also include the mixed grass prairie, the tallgrass prairie between...
sexlineatus), prairie lizard (Sceloporus conssbrinus), slender glass lizard (Ophisaurus attenuatus), and a number of skinks including the five-lined skink (Plestiodon...
western skink (Plestiodon skiltonianus) is a small, smooth-scaled lizard with relatively small limbs, measuring about 100 to 200 mm long. Western skinks are...
nationally or regionally threatened such as cerulean warbler, broadhead skink, flat floater mussel (Anodonta suborbiculata), and Mead's milkweed. More...
pine flatwoods, hydric hammocks, pine savannas, mesic pine-oak forests, prairies, cultivated fields, and a variety of suburban habitats; not unusually,...
razor-backed musk turtle, broad-headed skink, American bullfrog, southern toad, spring peeper and the coal skink. Mammals of the region include the elk...
evidence that a burrow provides protection for the Adelaide pygmy blue-tongue skink (Tiliqua adelaidensis) when fighting, as they may fight from inside their...
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