Plestiodon liui (HIKIDA & ZHAO, 1989)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	Chinese: 刘氏石龙子
Synonym	Eumeces liui HIKIDA & ZHAO 1989 Eumeces liui — GRIFFITH, NGO & MURPHY 2000 Plestiodon liui — SCHMITZ et al. 2004
Distribution	China (Hubei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang) Type locality: Nanjing, Jiangsu Prov., China
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: CAS 64956, Paratype: CIB 005737
Diagnosis
Comment
Etymology	Dedicated to Chengzhao Liu (Ch'eng-chao Liu, 1900-1976), Chinese herpetologist who worked at Sichuan Medical College, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here 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 - get paper here Griffith, H., A. Ngo & R. W. Murphy 2000. A cladistic evaluation of the cosmopolitan genus Eumeces Wiegmann (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincidae). Russ. J. Herpetol. 7 (1): 1-16 - get paper here Hikida T; Zhao E 1989. Eumeces liui: a new species of blue-tailed skink (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from China. Copeia 1989 (1): 110-114 - get paper here Schmitz, Andreas; 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 - get paper here Wang, Kai; Jinlong Ren, Hongman Chen, Zhitong Lyu, Xianguang Guo Ke Jiang, Jinmin Chen, Jiatang Li, Peng Guo, Yingyong Wang, Jing Che 2020. The updated checklists of amphibians and reptiles of China. Biodiversity Science 28 (2): 189-218 - get paper here Wu, Na, Minli Chen, Jinlong Liu, Bo Cai, Song Wang, Minggang Xu & Xianguang Guo. 2022. Comparative Analyses of Two Nearly Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of the Liu’s Skink, Plestiodon liui , from South and North Sides of the Yangtze River. Russian Journal of Herpetology 29 (1): 47–64. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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