Northern Mole Skink

Description:

About 4" long.

Habitat:

Found by my husband as he weeded our garden- originally Turkey Oak/Longleaf Pine Sandhill habitat.

Notes:

From Wikipedia: The species is subdivided into five subspecies, including the nominotypical subspecies: Florida Keys mole skink, P. e. egregius Baird, 1859: occurs only on some of the Florida Keys. Cedar Key mole skink, P. e. insularis (Mount, 1965): occurs only on three islands at Cedar Key. Bluetail mole skink, P. e. lividus (Mount, 1965): occurs only in interior central Florida; shares its Florida Scrub habitat with the Sand Skink. Peninsula mole skink, P. e. onocrepis Cope, 1871. Northern mole skink, P. e. similis (McConkey, 1957). I love how each scale is edged with a fine black line. Such detail!