McMartinVille--Reptiles

 
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Five-lined Skink

Order:  Squamata (scaled reptiles)
Suborder:  Lacertilia (=Sauria) (lizards)
Family:  Scincidae (skinks)
Genus:  Eumeces (North American skinks)
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"

Length: To 8.5 inches total.
Food:  Various insects and arachnids. Five-lined Skink Range
The skink at right was coiled in the relative safety of a tree stump.  He wasn't very active due to the cold weather that day.  Notice the red tinge to the head and the bright blue tail. Five-Lined Skink
The blue tails are indicative of a young individual. The young of the various Eumeces species typically have brightly colored tails and bodies (in this case black and white stripes on the body) which fade with age.
There are more  pictures of five-lined skinks on the Missouri, Arkansas, and South Carolina pages.