is there a difference between

[coura]

completely changed the topic lol

then i will

is it true they can kill cats and dogs that eat them??

No very unlikely Most people dont really know the diference bettween "newts", "salamanders",etc and so they can really mix them up with skinks. Skinks are more visible, they come during the day wille newts only come during the nigth, and so they take the blame. After all what´s the diference bettween a creppy crally and another? Here people say that about croc geckos, they even say they can kill people, a very ignorant think to say about a lizard that is completly harmless and even usefull

 

[Mampam]

No very unlikely Most people dont really know the diference bettween "newts", "salamanders",etc and so they can really mix them up with skinks. Skinks are more visible, they come during the day wille newts only come during the nigth, and so they take the blame. After all what´s the diference bettween a creppy crally and another? Here people say that about croc geckos, they even say they can kill people, a very ignorant think to say about a lizard that is completly harmless and even usefull

lmao, that makes sense lol

 

[Noto]

There are a lot of anecdotal reports of cats and dogs eating five-lined skinks and getting sick. As far as I know there has been no in-depth research on the topic.

By the way, many researchers now place the North American skinks formerly in Eumeces into a different genus, Plestiodon. The Florida sand skink, formerly Neoseps reynoldsi, is now also in Plestiodon. This has no bearing on possible hybridization between Japanese E. latiscutatus and American P. fasciatus, but it does show that their similar appearance is not due to close relationship.

 

[coura]

There are a lot of anecdotal reports of cats and dogs eating five-lined skinks and getting sick. As far as I know there has been no in-depth research on the topic.

By the way, many researchers now place the North American skinks formerly in Eumeces into a different genus, Plestiodon. The Florida sand skink, formerly Neoseps reynoldsi, is now also in Plestiodon. This has no bearing on possible hybridization between Japanese E. latiscutatus and American P. fasciatus, but it does show that their similar appearance is not due to close relationship.

Well they could be really close even thenLook at the sliders,painteds and cooters. First they were all lumped in one genus, then they started to being putted in the diferent ones they are still today. But that however doesant stop the fact they are so close that they can cross bred and create fertile offsring. But can be either that case or simply the fact that japanese and north american skinks fill just the same ecological nich in their home range and that coloracion is the best one in terms of survival in both envoirements AKA convergent evolucion and they are not directly related A genetic analisis would clear that up

 

[Noto]

I retract my earlier statement. As it turns out, both the American and the Asian five-lined skinks were transferred to Plestiodon: http://www.cnah.org/pdf_files/245.pdf

My apologies for any confusion I may have caused.