Scincella monticola (SCHMIDT, 1925)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	Chinese: 山滑蜥
Synonym	Leiolopisma monticola SCHMIDT 1925: 2 Scincella monticola — MITTLEMAN 1952 Scincella monticola — GREER 1974: 7 Leiolopisma monticola pingliensis SONG 1987 Scincella monticola — SHEA & GREER 2002: 156 Scincella monticola — LINKEM et al. 2011
Distribution	China (Shaanxi, W Sichuan, NW Yunnan), Vietnam (Lang Son, Cao Bang) Type locality: Snow Mountain Village, Likiang (= Lijiang), Yunnan.
Reproduction	oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: AMNH 20998 Holotype: SIZ 81196, adult female [pingliensis]
Diagnosis
Comment
Etymology	The species name, ‘monticola’, is Latin for ‘inhabitant of the mountains’ (Latin “colere” = inhabiting).
References	Inger R F; Zhao E; Bradley Shaffer H; Guanfu Wu 1990. Report on a collection of amphibians and reptiles from Sichuan, China. Fieldiana: Zoology (No. 58) : i-iii, 1-24 - get paper here Linkem, Charles W.; Arvin C. Diesmos, Rafe M. Brown 2011. Molecular systematics of the Philippine forest skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Sphenomorphus): testing morphological hypotheses of interspecific relationships. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 1217–1243 - get paper here Neang, Thy; Somaly Chan, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Jr.. 2018. A new species of smooth skink (Squamata: Scincidae: Scincella) from Cambodia. Zoological Research, DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2018.008 - get paper here Nguyen, Quang Truong, Nguyen Thien Tao, and Nikolai L. Orlov 2010. New record of the Mountain ground skink Scincella monticola (Schmidt, 1925) (Squamata: Scincidae) from Cao Bang Province, Vietnam. Herpetology Notes 3: 201-203 Nguyen, Truong Quang; Tao, Nguyen Thien; Böhme, Wolfgang; Ziegler, Thomas 2010. FIRST RECORD OF THE MOUNTAIN GROUND SKINK Scincella monticola (SCHMIDT, 1925) (SQUAMATA: SCINCIDAE) FROM VIETNAM. Russ. J. Herpetol. 17 (1): 67 – 69 - get paper here Pham A, Le D, Nguyen S, Ziegler T, Nguyen T 2015. New provincial records of skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) from northwestern Vietnam. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e4284; doi: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e4284 - get paper here Schmidt, KARL P. 1925. New reptiles and a new salamander from China. American Museum Novitates (157): 1-5. - get paper here Song-Mingtao 1987. Survey of the reptiles of southern Shaanxi. Acta Herpetologica Sinica 6 (1): 59-64 - get paper here Wang K, Lyu ZT, Wang J, Qi S, Che J 2022. Updated Checklist and Zoogeographic Division of the Reptilian Fauna of Yunnan Province, China. Biodiversity Science 30 (4): 21326, 1–31 - 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 Zhang, D. H. H. H. D., & Rao, N. X. D. 2022. Diversity of amphibians and reptiles in Yunnan regions of the Yunling Mountains. Biodiversity Science, 22316 - get paper here Zhao,E. & Adler,K. 1993. Herpetology of China. SSAR, Oxford/Ohio, 1-522 Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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