African Five-lined Skink vs. Western Skink

The skinks live in gardens of the San Gabriel Valley within the range of this native lizard. A: Each scale with three small keels in the African Five-lined Skink; smooth and glossy in the Western Skink. B: Five pale stripes, the lowest running onto the upper lip in the African Five-lined Skink; a broad brown band down the back edged by pale stripes in the Western Skink.

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