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    Species Accepted

    Plestiodon skiltonianus Baird & Girard, 1852

    Coronado Island Skink [interparietalis]

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      9 results
      Coronado Island Skink [interparietalis] English
      Eslizón occidental Spanish
      Great Basin Skink [utahensis] English
      Lincer Occidental Spanish
      Vestamerikansk Blåhaleskink Danish
      Western Skink English
      Western Skink [skiltonianus] English
      Westlicher Blauschwanzskink German
      scinque de l'Ouest French

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      50 results
      Rombough, C., & Elsasser, J. (2017). Plestiodon skiltonianus (Western Skink) Male combat. Herpetological Review 48 (3): 656-657.
      Smith, Hobart M. (1946). Handbook of Lizards: Lizards of the United States and of Canada. Comstock, Ithaca, NY, Xxii + 557 Pp.
      Vitt, Laurie J.; Justin D. Congdon, Nancy A. Dickson. (1977). Adaptive Strategies and Energetics of Tail Autonomy in Lizards. Ecology 58 (2): 326-337.
      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.
      Fitch, H. S. (1936). Amphibians and reptiles of the Rouge River Basin, Oregon. American Midland Naturalist 17: 634-652.
      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.
      Hansen, Robert and Jackson D. Shedd. (2025). California Amphibians and Reptiles. Princeton University Press, 528 Pp., ISBN9780691249087 (Ebook).
      Lemm, Matthias C. and Jeffrey M. Lemm. (2016). Plestiodon skiltonianus interparietalis (Coronado Skink) Avian predation. Herpetological Review 47 (2): 302-303.
      Rodgers, Thomas L.; Fitch, Henry S. (1947). Variation in the skinks (Reptilia: Lacertilia) of the skiltonianus group. Univ. California Publ. Zool. 48 (4): 169-220.

      Citation

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