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Plestiodon egregius (Mole Skink)

Synonyms: Eumeces egregius; Eumeces egregius insularis; Eumeces egregius lividus; Eumeces egregius similis

Wikipedia Abstract

Plestiodon egregius, the mole skink, is a species of small lizard endemic to the Southeastern United States.
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Infraspecies

Plestiodon egregius egregius (Florida Keys Mole Skink)
Plestiodon egregius insularis
Plestiodon egregius lividus (Bluetail Mole Skink)
Plestiodon egregius onocrepis (Peninsula Mole Skink)
Plestiodon egregius similis (Northern Mole Skink)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1 grams
Female Weight [1]  1 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Fossorial, Terrestrial
Litter Size [1]  5
Litters / Year [1]  1
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.968 inches (5 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve 40530 United States  
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary IV 2387149 Florida, United States
Gulf Island National Seashore II 67487 Florida, Mississippi, United States
Horseshoe Bend National Military Park V 1926 Alabama, United States
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge IV 38256 Florida, United States

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Parapharyngodon ocalaensis[3]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0