Biology:Scincella caudaequinae
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Short description: Species of lizard
| Scincella caudaequinae | |
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| Scincella caudaequinae in municipality of Jaumave, Tamaulipas, Mexico | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Scincella |
| Species: | S. caudaequinae
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| Binomial name | |
| Scincella caudaequinae (Smith, 1951)
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| Synonyms | |
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Leiolopisma caudaequinae Smith, 1951 Scincella silvicola caudaequinae Darling and Smith, 1954 | |
Scincella caudaequinae, commonly known as the Horsetail Falls ground skink[1] is endemic to Mexico.[2] It was named for the type locality "Horsetail Falls, 25 miles south of Monterrey, Nuevo, Leon".[3] Scincella caudaequinae occurs in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental in Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi,[4] southeast Coahuila,[5] and Tamaulipas.[6][7] It was considered a subspecies of Scincella silvicola for many decades.[8]
References
- ↑ Liner, E. A. and G. Casas-Andreu. 2008. Standard Spanish, English and scientific names of the amphibians and reptiles of Mexico. Society for the Study Amphibians and Reptiles. Herpetological Circular 38: i-iv, 1-162.
- ↑ Scincella caudaequinae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 26 July 2020.
- ↑ Smith, Hobart M. 1951. A new species of Leiolopisma (Reptilia: Sauria) from Mexico. University of Kansas Science Bulletin. 34 (3): 195-200.
- ↑ Smith, H. M. and E. H. Taylor. 1966. Herpetology of Mexico: Annotated Checklist and Keys to the Amphibians and Reptiles. A reprint of Bulletins 187, 194 and 199 of the U. S. Nat. Mus. with a list of subsequent taxonomic innovations. Eric Lundberg, Ashton, Maryland.
- ↑ García-Vázquez, Uri Omar, David Lazcano-Villarreal, Maria Cristina Garcia-de la Peña, and Gamaliel Castañeda. 2005. Scincella silvicola caudaequinae (Horsetail Falls Ground Skink). Mexico: Coahuila. Herpetological Review 36(3): 337.
- ↑ Martin, Paul S. 1958. A Biogeography of Reptiles and Amphibians in the Gomez Farías Region, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, 101: 1-102.
- ↑ Farr, William L., David Lazcano and Pablo A. Lavin-Murcio. 2013. New Distributional Records for Amphibians and Reptiles from the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico III. Herpetological Review 44(4): 631-645.
- ↑ Darling, Donald, M. and Hobart M. Smith. 1954. A collection of reptiles and amphibians from eastern Mexico. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 57(2): 180-195.
Wikidata ☰ Q5126260 entry
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