Variegated Skink (Plestiodon gilberti cancellosus)

Created: February 5th, 2013 - 12:54 AM
Last Modified: February 5th, 2013 - 12:54 AM Entered by: Jared Heald
Record 135792

Country: United States		State: California	County: Alameda County	Time: 2013-01-27 12:00:00
Qty: 3	Age: Varying	Sex: Both	Method: Debris flipping	Habitat: open grassland,rolling hills with few fallen oaks
Body Temperature: -----		Air Temperature: 64.00F	Ground Temperature: 68.00F	Humidity: 35%
Sky Conditions: Few clouds		Moon Phase: -----	Elevation: 350.00ft	Barometric Pressure: -----

Notes

Found 3 sub adults in total, all were found under rocks that were scatterd along fairly open oak/grassland hill sides getting full sun, mostly western facing. Of the three, one was still in brumation, and was on a slightly steeper slope on a NW facing portion near basalt rock outcrop.

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Comments

Posted by Jared Heald on Feb 12, 2013 at 08:36 PM

I am confused on them now also, these guys were only like 4 inches long and had no blue on there tails, and some of the others WITH blue tails were over 6 inches long, I thought Skiltons as adults look like Gilberti, but Juvies without blue tails? and pinkish orange at that? I thought that meant Gilberti.

Posted by Brian Hinds-AKA Fundad on Feb 05, 2013 at 08:19 AM

It's really nice to see you enter records. These skinks look to be western Skinks though.