Plestiodon skiltonianus
Baird and Girard, 1852
pless-tee-OH-don — skil-tone-ee-AWE-nus
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
Because the relationships within E. skiltonianus and between E. skiltonianus and the lineages within E. gilberti are complicated (Richmond and Reeder, 2002, Evolution 56: 1498–1513) and need to be analyzed using nuclear markers, we have retained the previously recognized subspecies as legacy taxa.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Skilton's Skink (Eumeces skiltonianus: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Western Skink (Eumeces skiltonianus: Van Denburgh, John. 1897. The reptiles of the Pacific Coast and Great Basin: An account of the species known to inhabit California, and Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Nevada. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 5():9-236); Western Skink (Plestiodon skiltonianus: Van Denburgh, John. 1922. The Reptiles of Western North America: An Account of the Species Known to Inhabit California and Oregon, Washinton, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, British Columbia, Sonora, and Lower California. Volume I. Lizards. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 556pp.); Western Skink (Eumeces skiltonianus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
The Reptile Database
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1852
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Baird, Spencer F. and Charles Girard. Characteristics of some new reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 6:68-70
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1934
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Patch, Clyde L. Eumeces in Canada. Copeia 1934(1):50
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1975
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Stewart, Glenn R. and Ronald S. Daniel. Microornamentation of lizard scales: Some variations and taxonomic correlations. Herpetologica 31(1):117-130
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1988
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Tanner, Wilmer W. Eumeces skiltonianus Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (447):1-4
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2002
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Richmond, Jonathan Q. and Tod W. Reeder. Evidence for parallel ecological speciation in Scincid lizards of the Eumeces skiltonianus species group (Squamata: Scincidae). Evolution 56(7):1498-1513
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2005
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Smith, Hobart M. Plestiodon: A replacement name for most members of the genus Eumeces in North America. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (14):15-16
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2012
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Brandley, Matthew C., Hidetoshi Ota, Tsutomu Hikida, Adrian Nieto Montes de Oca, Manuel Feria-Ortiz, Xianguang Guo, and Yuezhao Wang. The phylogenetic systematics of blue-tailed skinks (Plestiodon) and the family Scincidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165(1):163-189
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