---
title: "Shanghai Elegant Skink"
description: "Plestiodon elegans — Reptielen. Plestiodon elegans, the five-striped blue-tailed skink or Shanghai elegant skink, is a species of skink."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/shanghai-elegant-skink
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Shanghai Elegant Skink

> Plestiodon elegans — Reptielen. Plestiodon elegans, the five-striped blue-tailed skink or Shanghai elegant skink, is a species of skink.

- Scientific name: *Plestiodon elegans*
- Category: `reptiles` (Reptielen)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 2770
- Wikidata: [Q3392322](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3392322)
- iNaturalist taxon: [37791](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/37791)

## Names

- en: Shanghai Elegant Skink

## Countries with the most observations

TW (1905), CN (412), HK (15)

## Summary

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.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plestiodon_elegans

## Photo

![Shanghai Elegant Skink](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/shanghai-elegant-skink/medium.jpg)

Photo: 葉子 · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/252688816

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/shanghai-elegant-skink?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).