Coal Skink vs. Broad-headed Skink

A Coal Skink is a small skink with a broad dark band down each side, edged by thin pale lines, and no stripe down the middle of the back. A young Broad-headed Skink has five pale stripes on black, one of them down the middle; old males lose the stripes and grow a broad, swollen orange-red head. Count the upper lip scales in front of the long one below the eye: five on a Broad-headed.

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