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

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Nguyen, T.Q. |author2=Cai, B. |author3=Yang, J. |author4=Shang, G. |date=2019 |title=Plestiodon elegans |volume=2019 |page=e.T96265106A96265116 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T96265106A96265116.en |access-date=14 September 2023 }}

| genus = Plestiodon

| species = elegans

| authority = (Boulenger, 1887)

| synonyms = Eumeces elegans Boulenger, 1887

}}

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.

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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