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    Species Accepted

    Plestiodon tetragrammus Baird, 1859

    Four-lined Skink
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Plestiodon
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Escorpion De Cola Azul Spanish
      Eslizón cuatro líneas del noreste Spanish
      Four-lined Skink English
      Four-lined Skink [tetragrammus] English
      Lince Spanish
      Lincer de Cuatro Lineas Spanish
      Short-lined Skink [brevilineatus] English
      Четырёхполосый сцинк Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      50 results
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      Smith, Hobart M. (1946). Handbook of Lizards: Lizards of the United States and of Canada. Comstock, Ithaca, NY, Xxii + 557 Pp.
      Schmitz, A., & Patrick Mausfeld and Dirk Embert. (2004). Molecular studies on the genus Eumeces Wiegmann, 1834: phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic implications. Hamadryad 28 (1-2): 73 – 89.
      BRANDLEY, MATTHEW C.; OTA, HIDETOSHI; HIKIDA, TSUTOMU; NIETO MONTES DE OCA, ADRIAN; FERIA-ORTIZ, MANUEL; GUO, XIANGUANG; WANG, YUEZHAO. (2012). The phylogenetic systematics of blue-tailed skinks (Plestiodon) and the family Scincidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165 (1): 163-189.
      Baeza-Tarín, F., Hernández, T., Herr, M., Giovanetto, L., Lazcano, D., & Graham, S. P. (2025). NEW DISTRIBUTION RECORDS OF AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF MADERAS DEL CARMEN, COAHUILA, MEXICO. The Southwestern Naturalist, 68(4), 257-262.
      Lemos-Espinal, Julio A., Geoffrey R. Smith. (2015). Amphibians and reptiles of the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. Check List 11 (3): 1642.
      Crother, B. I. (ed.). (2012). Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Seventh Edition. Herpetological Circular 39: 1-92.
      Tanner, W. W. (1987). Lizards and turtles of Western Chihuahua. Great Basin Naturalist. 47: 383-421.
      Axtell, Ralph W. (1959). AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF THE BLACK GAP WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA, BREWSTER COUNTY, TEXAS. Southwestern Naturalist 4 (2): 88-109.
      Fox, Matthew R., Robert W. Stewart and Charles M. Watson. (2014). Geographic Distribution: Plestiodon tetragrammus brevilineatus (short-lined skink). Herpetological Review 45 (3): 464.

      Citation

      Plestiodon tetragrammus Baird, 1859 in undefined