#1638 · 🦎 reptiles

Little Brown Skink

🇳🇱 Kleine bruine skink ·Scincella lateralis

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Richard Coldiron · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Ty Smith · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Bill Carrell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Patrick Coin · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © Mary Keim · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © J Harrell Johnson · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Village Creek State Park, Lumberton, TX, US:© ksmith · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Louisiana, US:© ncb1221 · CC BY 4.0
9. Nags Head, NC 27959, USA:© Joshua Liverman · CC BY 4.0
10. Miami-Dade County, FL, USA:© Joshua Almansa · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Scincella lateralis is a small species of skink found throughout much of the eastern half of the United States, and into northern Mexico.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 23,029iNaturalist 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.
23,029 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Thomas Say in 1822 (204 years ago).