Okada's skink
Plestiodon latiscutatus Hallowell, 1861
Status not recordedlizards
The okada's skink (Plestiodon latiscutatus) is a species in the family Scincidae, order Squamata. Recorded adults weigh 8.75 g to 11.2 g and reach 8.51 cm in length. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Japan.
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Quick facts about the okada's skink
- Weight
- 8.75 g – 11.2 gsrc for Weight
- Length
- 7.57 cm – 8.51 cmsrc for Length
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Carnivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- forestsrc for Habitat
- Young per litter or clutch
- 6 – 10src for Young per litter or clutch
- Litters or clutches a year
- 0.7 – 1src for Litters or clutches a year
- Reproduction
- Eggssrc for Reproduction
- Active
- By day (diurnal)src for Active
- Lifestyle
- Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- 1 countrysrc for Countries on record
How big is the okada's skink?
What eats the okada's skink?
Species recorded in published studies and collections.
Recorded predators of the okada's skink
1 on record
- Japanese four-lined ratsnake Elaphe quadrivirgata3 sources
Each pair is recorded by at least two independent datasets. A record shows the animal was seen or found to have eaten the other, including scavenged carcasses and young animals; it does not say how often. Compiled by Global Biotic Interactions (CC0 1.0).
References for these records
- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/323601198
- Natural history of two colubrid snakes, Elaphe quadrivirgata and Rhabdophis tigrinus, on Yakushima Island, southwestern Japan. 2002. Amphibia-Reptilia 23(3): 323-331
- Geographic variation in food habits, body size, and life-history traits of the snakes on the Izu islands. 1989. In: Current herpetology in East Asia, pp. 414–432
Where does the okada's skink live?
Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.
The okada's skink is listed for 1 country.
- Listed
- Not listed
The same countries as a list
Why a country list is not a range map
Listed by: ReptileDB (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.
Is the okada's skink endangered?
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.
How is the okada's skink classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classReptilia
- orderSquamata
- familyScincidae
- genusPlestiodon
- SpeciesPlestiodon latiscutatus Hallowell, 1861
Synonyms Eumeces latiscutatus, Eumeces latiscutatus okadae
Other names and names in other languages (5)
- Far eastern skinkEnglish
- Japanese five-lined skinkEnglish
- オカダトカゲJapanese
- 오카다도마뱀Korean
- Дальневосточный сцинкRussian
Relatives of the okada's skink
Other species in the same genus Plestiodon.
Five-lined skink
Plestiodon fasciatus
Great plains skink
Plestiodon obsoletus
Sand skink
Plestiodon reynoldsi
Mole skink
Plestiodon egregius
Bermuda skink
Plestiodon longirostris
Western skink
Plestiodon skiltonianus
CompareOkada's skink vs Five-lined skinkOkada's skink vs Great plains skinkOkada's skink vs Sand skinkOkada's skink vs Mole skink
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the okada's skink?
An adult okada's skink weighs 8.75 g – 11.2 g and measures 7.57 cm – 8.51 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
Where does the okada's skink live?
Catalogue of Life checklists list the okada's skink for 1 country: Japan. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.
What kind of animal is the okada's skink?
The okada's skink (Plestiodon latiscutatus) belongs to the family Scincidae in the order Squamata.
What eats the okada's skink?
Animals recorded preying on the okada's skink include japanese four-lined ratsnake. The records are compiled by Global Biotic Interactions from published studies; each pair is reported by at least two datasets.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.
- 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 - 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 Biotic Interactions (GloBI): interpreted data products · CC0 1.0 · 0.11
Poelen, J.H., Simons, J.D. & Mungall, C.J. (2014) Global Biotic Interactions: an open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics 24: 148–159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.08.005. Data: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22691479, with each record's original reference. - 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
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