Plestiodon multilineatus (TANNER, 1957)
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Plestiodon multilineatus
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Chihuahuan Skink S: Eslaboncillo |
| Synonym | Eumeces multilineatus TANNER 1957 Eumeces multivirgatus mexicanus ANDERSON & WILHOFT 1959 Eumeces multilineatus — LINER 1994 Eumeces multilineatus — GRIFFITH, NGO & MURPHY 2000 Plestiodon multilineatus — SCHMITZ et al. 2004 |
| Distribution | Mexico (Chihuahua) Type locality: 3 miles north of Colonia Chuhuichupa, Chihuahua, Mexico. |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype: BYU 13798; paratypes: BYU, USNM Holotype: MVZ 66061, adult male [mexicanus] |
| Diagnosis | Definition: A moderately-sized species (maximum SVL 70 mm) with 24 (rarely 25) scale rows, 52-59 (mean 55.5) dorsal scales between the nape of the neck and the base of the tail, supralabials 7-7, infralabials 6-6, no postnasals, usually one elongate postlabial extending to ear lobules, frontonasal nearly twice as wide as long, prefrontals usually in contact or narrowly separated, interparietal not enclosed posteriorly by parietals, two pairs of nuchals, two post mentals with the second greatly enlarged, four enlarged chin shields, and an enlarged median row of subcaudals. The color pattern consists of five longitudinal light stripes over a dark ground color. The dorsal stripe occurs on the inner third of the two median dorsal scale rows and extends uninterrupted to the anterior part of the tail, followed laterally by dark stripes on the lateral third of the dorsal scale rows. The scales between the dorsolateral and lateral light stripes are a uniform dark brown to black. The two dorsolateral light stripes extend from the lateral edge of the parietal along the lateral edge of the third scale row. The two narrow lateral light stripes extend along the edge of the sixth scale row, edged below by a narrow dark stripe. The labials, chinshields, anterior gular scales, and the scales in the anal are cream colored, and the ventral scales are mottled grey. (Tanner 1988) |
| Comment | Synonymy partly after LEGLER & WEBB 1960. |
| Etymology | Named after Latin multi = "many," and lineatus = "marked with lines", referring to the many-lined color pattern. |
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