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Ocellated Bronze Skink vs. Great Plains Skink

The Ocellated Bronze Skink is introduced in a few Tucson neighbourhoods, at the edge of the Great Plains Skink's range. A: Many small white eye-spots, each edged black in the Ocellated Bronze Skink; a dark crescent on the back edge of each scale, making a net; no white eye-spots in the Great Plains Skink. B: Bronze or grey-brown in the Ocellated Bronze Skink; tan or olive, often with orange or salmon spots low on the sides in the Great Plains Skink.

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Ocellated Bronze Skink

Chalcides ocellatus

Great Plains Skink

Plestiodon obsoletus
Ocellated Bronze Skink vs. Great Plains Skink: comparison sheet with the differences marked

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