Great Plains Skink vs. Common Five-lined Skink
The Great Plains Skink is the big skink of the plains, light grey or tan with each scale edged in black, so the pattern is a mesh of broken, wavy dark lines rather than stripes; the scales on its sides run in oblique rows. The Five-lined Skink has five clean pale stripes. Young Great Plains Skinks are jet-black with a blue tail and orange and white spots on the head; young Five-lined are black with five yellow stripes.
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