Plestiodon toyamai

Plestiodon toyamai (Plestiodon toyamai) is a skink described in 2025 whose juveniles show vivid colour and five longitudinal pale lines, with technical scale counts defining the species. Identification should combine documented pattern, scalation, body form and locality because related Japanese reptiles may be very similar. Claims here are limited to the opened species accounts (Wikipedia, general species account; Reptile Database).

It is documented from Okinawajima, with its type locality at Okuma in Kunigami; the name honours Masanao Toyama for contributions to Ryukyu herpetology. Information absent from those species-level sources is omitted rather than inferred from relatives. Japanese occurrence follows the site's catalogue and the opened distribution accounts (Wikipedia, general species account; Reptile Database). This conservative treatment keeps unresolved parts of its natural history clearly visible to readers.