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Plestiodon multivirgatus (Many-lined Skink)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Plestiodon multivirgatus, the many-lined skink, is a medium-sized species of lizard, a member of the North American skink genus Plestiodon.
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Infraspecies

Plestiodon multivirgatus epipleurotus (Variable Skink)
Plestiodon multivirgatus multivirgatus (Northern Many-lined Skink)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5 grams
Female Weight [1]  5 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Fossorial, Terrestrial
Litter Size [1]  6
Litters / Year [1]  2
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  2.756 inches (7 cm)

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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
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