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Thursday, July 6, 2017
Name that critter.
First time I have noticed one of these at TFL. Do you know what it is? Note: proper identification includes being age specific... 79,90,73,0,W
Young blue tailed skink
ReplyDeleteBlue-tailed skink. Lucky you!!
ReplyDeleteThat's wrong. It's a beldings orange-throates whiptail.
ReplyDeleteYou are right
DeleteThroated whiptail young one
ReplyDeleteIt's a whiptail lizard, I thought it was a Sonoran but Beldings Orange Throated whiptail sounds right. At any rate, not a skink.
ReplyDeleteThe (American) five-lined skink (Plestiodon fasciatus). The blue tail is a juvenile. The adults have a red head and throat.
ReplyDeleteThe rare Chihuahuan blue-tailed kitchen cleaner, not yet a teen, or he woulda left more of a mess. . .
ReplyDeleteMy bets are on a juvenile Laredo Striped Whiptail...the only species that looks like this that is endemic to this area.
ReplyDeleteYeah. I checked out the five-lined skink and they said they were only in Connecticut.
ReplyDelete… given the number of stripes and your location, this is my guess… has the blue coloration as a juvenile (see photo) seems unusual - outside its normal range a bit…
ReplyDeleteArizona Striped Whiptail (Aspidoscelis arizonae)
Arizona Striped Whiptail SERP
How about Pat for its name.
ReplyDeleteother contenders:
ReplyDeleteLittle striped whiptailsee description
some NM variants
a different blue that would make him blue…
multiple pics, 7 stripes, BUT supposedly they are found only in Graham and Cochise counties in southeastern Arizona
ReplyDelete…and in declining numbers there… they seem to like centipedes to snack on.
I never saw anything like it. Film it moving and put it on UTube. You might make a bundle.
ReplyDeleteThat lizard is so beautiful and unique.
ReplyDeleteI think the winner is...Trans-Pecos Striped Whiptail. http://www.californiaherps.com/noncal/misc/misclizards/pages/a.i.heptagramma.html
ReplyDelete5 striped lizard
ReplyDeleteyep, it's a lizard :-)
ReplyDeleteWonder why you haven't seen these before. Herps of TX says they are diurnal.
In Carolina they call them a scorpion, I know, I know!!!!
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