Eumeces fasciatus

Skink, common five-lined (Eumeces fasciatus)... 

Table 1. Effects of interspecific odor transfers on responses by male Eumeces inexpectatus to Eumeces fasciatus ... 

Duvall, D., Herskowitz, R., and Trupiano-Duvall, J., 1980, Responses of five-lined skinks (Eumeces fasciatus) and ground skinks (Scincella lateralis) to conspecific and interspecific chemical cues, J. Herpetol., 14 121-127. 

Eumeces fasciatus, Univ. of Kansas Publ., Mus. Nat. Hist., 8 1-156. 

Groves, J, D., 1982, Egg-eating behavior of brooding five-lined skinks, Eumeces fasciatus, Copeia, 1982 969-971. 

Olfactory cues have been studied in both five-lined skinks (Eumeces fasciatus) and ground skinks Scincella lateralis) by means of an olfactometer (Duvall et al. 1980). Airborne chemical cues from conspecific males and females showed that these animals respond to the odors with tongue-flicks and snout-dips (Duvall et al. 1980). Chemical cues from heterospecific animals were ignored. 

Eumeces fasciatus) and ground skinks Scincella lateralis) to conspecific and interspecific chemical cues. J. Herp. 14 121-127. 

INTERSPECIFIC ODOR DISCRIMINATION IN THE FASCIATUS GROUP OF EUMECES... 

In the southeastern United States, three skinks in the fasciatus species group of Eumeces (Taylor, 1935) occur, E. fasciatus, E. inexpectatus, and E. laticeps. These skinks are so similar in appearance that they were considered a single species until the 1930s (Taylor,... 

Both sexes of skinks in the fasciatus group of Eumeces from the southeastern United States recognize conspecifics as indicated by restriction of male agonistic behavior and sexual receptivity by females to conspecific lizards. Males of only one species, E. inexpectatus, courted heterospecific females. 

Pheromonal communication may be a familial trait in Scincidae and was very likely present in ancestral Eumeces. As it evolved in the fasciatus group, pheromonal communication was presumably modified and... 

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