Many-Lined Skink (Eumeces multivirigatus)

Adult Size: 5" to 7½"

Description: A long bodied lizard with many alternating light and dark stripes, including dorsolateral light stripe along the 3rd scale row counting from the middle of the back. The back striping is faded or absent in some populations. The tail tapers so gradually it appears swollen. Young have a bright blue tail.

Habitat: Areas of rocks and small brush in open grassy plains, sand hills, and desert; mountainous wooded areas to 8,200 feet.

Breeding: Lays a clutch of 5 eggs.

Range: Southwestern South Dakota through southeastern Wyoming, south to Arizona and New Mexico with scattered populations in western Texas and Mexico.

Diet: It feeds in insects.

Behavior: Diurnal. This skink typically burrows under rocks, logs trash, and even dry cow chips.

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Subspecies: None.