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    Species Accepted

    Plestiodon japonicus (Peters, 1864)

    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      9 results
      Fünfstreifiger Skink German
      Japanese Skink English
      Japanese five-lined skink English
      Japansk Femstribet Skink Danish
      Nihon-Tokage Japanese
      јапански роваш Serbian
      ニホントカゲ Japanese
      서일본도마뱀 Korean
      일본도마뱀 Korean

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      17 results
      Suzuki, & Kei K. (2025). Arboreal Space Use of Plestiodon japonicus in Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu Island, Japan. Current Herpetology Aug 2025 Vol. 44, No. 2: 204-209.
      Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton, M.; [...] Uetz, P.; Wagner, P.; Roll, U. & Meiri, S. (2022). A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16.
      Goris, R. C., & Maeda, N. (2004). Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Japan. Krieger, Malabar, 285 Pp.
      Peters, W. C. H. (1864). Die Eidechsenfamilie der Scincoiden, insbesondere über die Schneider’schen, Wiegmann’schen und neue Arten des zoologischen Museums. Monatsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1864: 44-58.
      BRANDLEY, MATTHEW C.; OTA, HIDETOSHI; HIKIDA, TSUTOMU; NIETO MONTES DE OCA, ADRIAN; FERIA-ORTIZ, MANUEL; GUO, XIANGUANG; WANG, YUEZHAO. (2012). The phylogenetic systematics of blue-tailed skinks (Plestiodon) and the family Scincidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165 (1): 163-189.
      Kurita, & Kazuki and Tsutomu Hikida. (2014). Divergence and Long-Distance Overseas Dispersals of Island Populations of the Ryukyu Five-Lined Skink, Plestiodon Marginatus (Scincidae: Squamata), in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan, as Revealed by Mitochondrial DNA Phylogeography. Zoological Science 31, No. 4: 187-194.
      Murali, G., & Ullasa Kodandaramaiah. (2016). Deceived by stripes: conspicuous patterning on vital anterior body parts can redirect predatory strikes to expendable posterior organs. R. Soc. Open Sci. 3: 160057.
      Iyoda, S., & Yanagihara, R. (2024). Field observations on aggressive head-biting behaviour of five lined skink species, Plestiodon finitimus Okamoto & Hikida, 2012 and Plestiodon japonicus (Peters, 1864), in Japan. Herpetology Notes 17: 419-422.
      OKAMOTO, TAKU, & TSUTOMU HIKIDA. (2012). A new cryptic species allied to Plestiodon japonicus (Peters, 1864) (Squamata: Scincidae) from eastern Japan, and diagnoses of the new species and two parapatric congeners based on morphology and DNA barcode. Zootaxa 3436: 1–23.
      Okamoto, T., Motokawa, J., Toda, M., & Hikida, T. (2006). Parapatric distribution of the lizards Plestiodon (formerly Eumeces) latiscutatus and P. japonicus (Reptilia: Scincidae) around the Izu Peninsula, central Japan, and its biogeographic implications. Zoological Science 23:419– 425.

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