What type of animal is a skink?
San Lucan skink similar. San Lucan skink The San Lucan skink ("Plestiodon lagunensis") is a skink (a type of lizard) native to the Baja California Peninsula. Together with the western skink ("P. skiltonianus"), Gilbert's skink ("P. gilberti"), and the four-lined Asiatic skink ("P. quadrilineatus"), the San Lucan skink belongs to the so-called ""skiltonianus" group". The exact taxonomy within this group is being questioned and may need revision following DNA analysis research. The San Lucan skink occurs only on the southernmost tip of Baja California, in the mountains around La Paz. They tend to nest in the same areas as western skinks, and are
Blue Mountains water skink These populations are split into about forty actual locations where the skink is found, its habitat being swampy areas with sedges and small shrubs, at altitudes between . Analysis of microsatellite loci of the subpopulations has shown that they are genetically distinct, with very little dispersal of individual skinks from one location to another. What movement there is appears only to involve males. The skink is one of about four hundred species of animal found in the Greater Blue Mountains Area, a UNESCO World Heritage Site consisting of peaks, plateaus, gorges and escarpments. The site is significantly representative of the