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Male or Female?

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in the pictures posted above? I was looking at a site and it looked like one is a Northern prairie skink and one is a Greater prairie skink,,, ANYONE?
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Bear in mind that I am in Florida & don't know what a prairie is. That said, looking at photographs in a Field Guide by Conant, your critters both look like the great plains skink, Eumeces obsoletus.

I say this because the striping on the prairies (E. septentrionalis sp) is a clean stripe or stripes, while thos on obsoletus are just suggestions of stripes, with dark edged scales...more a dotted line effect than clear striping.

Knowing exactly where they were found might help, unless they were found where the species overlap.

~~Greg~~

both under the same rock, here in the flint hills of kansas, next to a lake..I was wondering because the one has such a short tail and no striping and the other has a very long tail and like you said just a suggestion of stripes but rather broken up..
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Great Plains is found throughout the state, the Prairies are found only in the eastern half. These still look like the former to me. Do a websearch on both species...and you may want to pick up a good field guide. They really are quite helpful.

~~Greg~~

Those look like great plains too me aswell, we have northern praries out here, and ours look nothing liek that, they have stripes running down there body.
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