Broad-headed Skink

base stats

• NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
• worldwide 16,737iNaturalist observations
• threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

• ✈️No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
• 🌍16,737 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
• 📜Scientifically named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider in 1801 (225 years ago).

fact sheet

English

Broad-headed Skink

Nederlands

Breedkopskink

scientific name

Plestiodon laticeps

class

Reptilia

order

Squamata

family

Scincidae

IUCN Red List

LC · least concern

sightings in NL

0

sightings worldwide

16,737

GBIF records in NL

0

weight

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length

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lifespan

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named

1801 by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.