Plestiodon finitimus
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In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
Plestiodon finitimus, the Far Eastern skink, is a species of lizard which is endemic to Japan and Russia. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nikko National Park | 🇯🇵 Japan |
More parks will be added in future updates.
No species of the same family or order lives in Nikko National Park, so these are its closest relatives here: other reptiles.
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Japanese five-lined skink sighting in Nikko National Park on a given day, based on 22 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August
In that month about 80% of wildlife watchers report a Japanese five-lined skink in Nikko National Park on a given day, against about 10% in March–April and October–November, the lowest months. That is one of Nikko National Park's wettest months, with about 230 mm of rain against 100 mm in November.
Between 3 and 6 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Japanese five-lined skink sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is mostly seen at night.
Only Nikko National Park, in our data
Nikko National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Japanese five-lined skink sightings: about 50% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Japanese five-lined skink is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Nikko National Park (22 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
