Little Brown Skink vs. Common Five-lined Skink

The Little Brown Skink is small, golden-brown to bronze, with a single dark stripe along each side and no pale stripes, and it wriggles through leaf litter on short legs. A Common Five-lined Skink has five pale stripes on a dark back when young (with a blue tail), or fades to plain brown with an orange head as an old male. It is also much bigger.

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