Great Plains Skink vs. Prairie Skink
The Prairie Skink is a many-striped skink, with four light stripes and broad dark side bands, and its young are black with thin yellowish stripes. The Great Plains Skink is much larger, has no clean stripes but every scale edged in black, and its young are black with orange and white spots on the head.
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