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Western Skink

Plestiodon skiltonianus

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) brennan_stanfield, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.

United States	9,801
California	7,657
Oregon	650
Washington	244
Canada	227
Idaho	170
Nevada	157
Utah	154
British Columbia	119
Alberta	108

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Chordates · Chordata
Class	Reptiles · Reptilia
Order	Snakes and Lizards · Squamata
Family	Skinks · Scincidae
Genus	Toothy Skinks · Plestiodon

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
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Practise Western Skink with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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