Plestiodon elegans
Plestiodon elegans, the five-striped blue-tailed skink or Shanghai skink, is a species of lizards in the genus Plestiodon found in East Asia.
| Plestiodon elegans | |
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| P. elegans, near Ho Chung, Sai Kung District, New Territories, Hong Kong. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Plestiodon |
| Species: | P. elegans |
| Binomial name | |
| Plestiodon elegans (Boulenger, 1887) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Eumeces elegans Boulenger, 1887 | |
References
- Selected body temperature, thermal tolerance and thermal dependence of food assimilation and locomotor performance in adult blue-tailed skinks, Eumeces elegans. WG Du, SJ Yan, X Ji, Journal of Thermal Biology, 2000
- Growth, sexual size dimorphism and female reproduction of blue tailed skinks, Eumeces elegans. DU Wei-Guo, JI Xiang, Zoological Research, 2001
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