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Five-lined Skink
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- Order: Squamata (scaled reptiles)
- Suborder: Lacertilia (=Sauria) (lizards)
- Family: Scincidae (skinks)
- Genus: Eumeces (North American skinks)
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| Also known as:
"scorpion" (young have blue tails, and are thought by
some to be poisonous) |
Scientific Name: Eumeces fasciatus
(Linnaeus, 1758) |
| Habitat: Open woodland
to forest edge. |
Eu="good," mekos="length,"
fasciatus="striped"
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| Length: To 8.5 inches total. |
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| Food: Various insects
and arachnids. |
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At right is a picture of a five-lined skink just
starting to run into the woodpile on which it was basking.
We approached too closely and entered its "flight zone." |
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| We found several skinks in the
remnants of Carver's boyhood home (pictured on the main Missouri
page). They used the gaps between the timbers for shelter,
and sunned themselves along the exposed edges. The picture
below is of a skink who is checking to see if the coast is clear
to resume basking in the summer sun. |
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| There are more pictures of
five-lined skinks on the North
Carolina and South Carolina
pages, and a juvenile on the Arkansas
page. |
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