Gold skink

Weight

41.1 g – 79.3 gsrc for Weight

Length

13.7 cm – 14.6 cmsrc for Length

Lifespan

8.4 yearssrc for Lifespan

Diet

Carnivoresrc for Diet

Longest recorded lifespan

22 years

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

desert, shrublandsrc for Habitat

Egg incubation

59.5 dayssrc for Egg incubation

Young per litter or clutch

2 – 6.3src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

2.5 years – 3 yearssrc for Age at maturity

Litters or clutches a year

1src for Litters or clutches a year

Reproduction

Eggssrc for Reproduction

Active

By day (diurnal)src for Active

Lifestyle

Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle

Brain mass

171.5 mgsrc for Brain mass

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

Not recorded

Not recorded

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classReptilia
4. orderSquamata
5. familyScincidae
6. genusEumeces
7. SpeciesEumeces schneiderii (Daudin, 1802)

Synonyms Eumeces pavimentatus, Eumeces pavimentatus var. syriaca, Eumeces schneideri, Eumeces schneiderii princeps, Eumeces schneiderii princeps, Eumeces schneiderii variegatus, Euprepis princeps, Novoeumeces schneiderii, Plestiodon aldrovandi, Scincus pavimentatus, Scincus schneideri, Scincus schneiderii

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistITISWikidata

CompareGold skink vs Algerian skinkGold skink vs Thal skinkGold skink vs Blyth's skinkGold skink vs Cholistan skink

• An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles · CC0 1.0 · E096-269
  Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1
• AnimalTraits: a curated animal trait database for body mass, metabolic rate and brain size · CC0 1.0 · 1.0.7
  Herberstein, M.E., McLean, D.J., Lowe, E. et al. (2022) AnimalTraits: a curated animal trait database for body mass, metabolic rate and brain size. Scientific Data 9: 265. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01364-9. Data: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6468938
• Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
  Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf
• Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-11-13
  Pagad, S., Genovesi, P., Carnevali, L., Schigel, D. & McGeoch, M.A. (2018) Introducing the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Scientific Data 5: 170202. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.202. Country checklists published through GBIF by the IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group.
• ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles · CC BY 4.0 · v1-2
  Oskyrko, O., Mi, C., Meiri, S. et al. (2024) ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles. Scientific Data 11: 243. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03079-5. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24572683.v4
• SquamBase 1.0 - a dataset of squamate species traits · CC0 1.0 · 1.0-dryad-v5
  Meiri, S. (2024) SquamBase - a database of squamate (Reptilia: Squamata) traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33(4): e13812. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13812. Data: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.76hdr7t3b

@misc{gold_skink_2026,
  title = {Gold skink (Eumeces schneiderii)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/gold-skink},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}