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Southeastern Five-lined Skink
Plestiodon inexpectatus (Taylor, 1932)

Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Blue-tail Lizard (Lacertus cauda caerulea: Catesby, Mark. 1754. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands: Containing the Figures of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects, and Plants: Particularly the Forest-trees, Shrubs, and other Plants, not Hitherto Described, or Very Incorrectly Figured by Authors. Together with Their Descriptions in English and French. To which, are Added Observations on the Air, Soil, and Waters: with Remarks upon Agriculture, Grain, Pulse, Roots, &c. To the Whole, is Prefixed a New and Correct Map of the Countries Treated of. , London. pp.); Red-headed Skink (Eumeces fasciatus: Beyer, George. 1900. Louisana herpetology. Proceedings of the Louisiana Society of Naturalists 1897-1899():24-46); Blue-tailed Lizard (Eumeces fasciatus: Beyer, George. 1900. Louisana herpetology. Proceedings of the Louisiana Society of Naturalists 1897-1899():24-46); Scorpion (Eumeces fasciatus: Beyer, George. 1900. Louisana herpetology. Proceedings of the Louisiana Society of Naturalists 1897-1899():24-46); Scorpion (Eumeces quinquelineatus: Brimley, Clement S. 1915. List of reptiles and amphibians of North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 30(4):195-206); Bluetailed Lizard (Eumeces quinquelineatus: Brimley, Clement S. 1915. List of reptiles and amphibians of North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 30(4):195-206); Blue-tailed Skink (Plestiodon fasciatus: Stejneger, Leonard and Thomas Barbour. 1917. A Checklist of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp.); Scorpion (Plestiodon fasciatus: Stejneger, Leonard and Thomas Barbour. 1917. A Checklist of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp.); Florida Five-lined Skink (Eumeces inexpectatus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
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USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1932 Taylor, Edward H. Eumeces inexpectatus, a new American lizard of the family Scincidae. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 20(13):251-258

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