I saw a beautiful little lizard in my yard today and was wondering if anyone could help me ID it. I live in Tampa, FL. The lizard was spotted in my front yard in the grass. It measured between 2 and 3 inches. The colors were very bright; an irridescent blue tail, black body and legs and red wavy streaks running from the nose back acrss the head and stopping around the neck. I didn't get an opportunity to look at the belly as it was too busy trying to hide from me and I didn't want to hurt it.
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Lizard Identification.
DonnaV59
Jun 21, 2003 04:22 PM
Replies (5)
Esther
Jun 22, 2003 12:30 PM
Does it look like this guy? Many other photos of gecko spp. can be found at www.gekkota.org.
DonnaV59
Jun 22, 2003 02:33 PM
Nope...that's not the one, but thank you for answering.
amelcorn
Jun 22, 2003 02:07 PM
Is this the lizard you seen? If so, I call it a blue tailed skink, don't know its real name though.
DonnaV59
Jun 22, 2003 02:35 PM
No, I'm familiar with the blue-tailed skink. Thank you though.
DonnaV59
Jun 23, 2003 08:34 AM
OK...It appears that you're answer was correct. All my "experts" here at work tell me that I probably saw a juvinile southeastern five-line skink.
