Plestiodon elegans
{{Short description|Species of lizard}}
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| image = Five-striped Blue-tailed Skink (Plestiodon elegans) 藍尾石龍子.jpg
| image_caption = Near Ho Chung, Sai Kung District, New Territories, Hong Kong.
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Plestiodon
| species = elegans
| authority = (Boulenger, 1887)
| synonyms = Eumeces elegans Boulenger, 1887
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Plestiodon elegans, the five-striped blue-tailed skink or Shanghai elegant skink, is a species of skink. It is found in China, northern Vietnam, Taiwan, and the Senkaku Islands of Japan.
References
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- Selected body temperature, thermal tolerance and thermal dependence of food assimilation and locomotor performance in adult blue-tailed skinks, Eumeces elegans. WG Du, SJ Yan, X Ji, Journal of Thermal Biology, 2000
- Growth, sexual size dimorphism and female reproduction of blue tailed skinks, Eumeces elegans. DU Wei-Guo, JI Xiang, Zoological Research, 2001
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Category:Vertebrates of East Asia
Category:Reptiles of Hong Kong
Category:Reptiles described in 1887
Category:Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
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