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Plestiodon
About 6" long & light brown
Thanks Ashley T for helping identify as much as possible :)
Spotted on Apr 8, 2015
Submitted on Apr 8, 2015
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Either five-lined skink (Plestiodon fasciatus) or southeastern five-lined skink (Plestiodon inexpectatus). You can only tell the two apart if you examine the scales underneath the tail. The broadhead skink is also extremely similar, but I ruled it out by your lizard having 4 upper lip scales and broadhead skinks have 5 upper lip scales. So from these photos, it is not possible to tell which species it is. Probably best to leave this spotting at the genus level.
http://bio.davidson.edu/herpcons/herps_o...
http://bio.davidson.edu/herpcons/herps_o...