Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Scincidae > Plestiodon > Plestiodon obsoletusPlestiodon obsoletus (Great Plains Skink)Synonyms: Eumeces obsoletus; Lamprosaurus guttulatus The Great Plains skink (Plestiodon obsoletus) is a species of lizard endemic to North America. |
| Adult Weight [1] | 30 grams | | Birth Weight [2] | 1 grams | | Female Weight [2] | 38 grams |  | | Female Maturity [2] | 1 year | | | Gestation [2] | 46 days | | Litter Size [2] | 12 | | Litters / Year [2] | 1 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 7 years | | Reproductive Mode [3] | Oviparous | | Snout to Vent Length [2] | 4.331 inches (11 cm) | | | Habitat Substrate [3] | Fossorial, Terrestrial |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Arizona Mountains forests |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Central and Southern mixed grasslands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Central forest-grasslands transition |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Central tall grasslands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Chihuahuan desert |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Colorado Plateau shrublands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Edwards Plateau savanna |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Flint Hills tall grasslands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Nebraska Sand Hills mixed grasslands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Sonoran desert |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Tamaulipan matorral |
Mexico |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Tamaulipan mezquital |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Texas blackland prairies |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Veracruz moist forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Western Gulf Coastal grasslands |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Western short grasslands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Amistad National Recreation Area |
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Texas, United States |
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Bandelier National Monument |
V |
8107 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Big Bend Biosphere Reserve National Park |
II |
815561 |
Texas, United States |
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park |
II |
15448 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Central Plains Biosphere Reserve |
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15345 |
United States |
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Chickasaw National Recreation Area |
V |
7025 |
Oklahoma, United States |
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Chiricahua National Monument |
V |
1421 |
Arizona, United States |
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Coronado National Monument National Memorial |
III |
4360 |
Arizona, United States |
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El Malpais National Monument |
III |
109980 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Fort Bowie National Historic Site |
III |
1004 |
Arizona, United States |
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Fort Davis National Historic Site |
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Texas, United States |
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Guadalupe Mountains National Park |
II |
46114 |
Texas, United States |
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Jornada Biosphere Reserve |
Ib |
30913 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Konza Prairie Biosphere Reserve |
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8617 |
Kansas, United States |
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Lake Meredith National Recreation Area |
V |
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Texas, United States |
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Padre Island National Seashore |
II |
42068 |
Texas, United States |
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Reserva de Mapimi Biosphere Reserve |
VI |
849819 |
Chihuahua, Mexico |
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Saguaro National Park |
II |
11686 |
Arizona, United States |
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Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument |
V |
1081 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Sevilleta LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
IV |
228335 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Shortgrass Steppe LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
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Colorado, United States |
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Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument |
V |
3049 |
Arizona, United States |
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Wupatki National Monument |
III |
36098 |
Arizona, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 2Nathan 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 ♦ 3Meiri, 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 ♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 5The Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl: Taxonomy, Distribution, and Natural History, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, W. Scott Richardson, Glenn A. Proudfoot, USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-43. 2000 ♦ 6Resources of a Snake Community in Prairie-Woodland Habitat of Northeastern Kansas, Henry S. Fitch, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, Wildlife Research Report 13: 83-98 (1982) Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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