Plestiodon lagunensis (VAN DENBURGH, 1895)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: San Lucan Skink S: Lincer de la Laguna
Synonym	Eumeces lagunensis VAN DENBURGH 1895: 134 Plestiodon lagunensis — VAN DENBURGH & SLEVIN 1921: 28 Plestiodon skiltonianus lagunensis — NELSON 1921: 114 Plestiodon lagunensis — LOVERIDGE 1929 Eumeces lagunensis — TAYLOR 1936: 431 Eumeces lagunensis — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 167 Eumeces skiltonianus lagunensis — STEBBINS 1985: 149 Eumeces skiltonianus lagunensis — TANNER 1988 Eumeces lagunensis — LINER 1994 Eumeces lagunensis — GRIFFITH, NGO & MURPHY 2000 Plestiodon lagunensis — SCHMITZ et al. 2004
Distribution	Mexico (Baja California Sur) Type locality: San Francisquito, Sierra de la Laguna, Baja California.
Reproduction	oviparous (phylogenetic imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Neotype: USNM 67398. Designated by Taylor (1936). Original syntypes: CAS 400 and 402 (destroyed in the earthquake of 1906).
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Comment	Phylogenetics: P. lagunensis appears to be nested within P. skiltonianus in the analysis of RICHMOND (2006).
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Beaman, K. R., J. Q. Richmond and L. L. Grismer. 2004. Eumeces lagunensis. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (792): 1-3 - 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 Goldberg, Stephen R., Kent R. Beaman and Jeanette Arreola. 2013. Plestiodon lagunensis (San Lucan skink) reproduction. Herpetological Review 44 (3): 512-513 - 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 Grismer, L. L. 1996. Geographic variation, taxonomy, and distribution of Eumeces skiltonianus and E. laguensis (Squamata: Scincidae) in Baja California, México. Amphibia-Reptilia 17 (4) : 361-375. - get paper here Grismer, L. L.; McGuire, J. A. 1993. The oases of central Baja California, Mexico. Part I. A preliminary account of the relict mesophilic herpetofauna and the status of the oases. Bull. Southern California Acad. Sci. 92 (1): 2-24 - get paper here Jones, L.L. & Lovich, R.E. 2009. Lizards of the American Southwest. A photographic field guide. Rio Nuevo Publishers, Tucson, AZ, 568 pp. [review in Reptilia 86: 84] - get paper here Loveridge, A. 1929. On Some Skinks of the Genus Eumeces from North America Copeia 173: 111-112. - get paper here Nelson, Edward W. 1921. Lower California and Its Natural Resources. Memoirs National Academy of Sciences 16: 194 pp. Peralta-García A, Valdez-Villavicencio JH, Fucsko LA, Hollingsworth BD, Johnson JD, Mata-Silva V, Rocha A, DeSantis DL, Porras LW, and Wilson LD. 2023. The herpetofauna of the Baja California Peninsula and its adjacent islands, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 17(1&2): 57–142 Richmond, J.Q. 2006. Evolutionary basis of parallelism in North American scincid lizards. EVOLUTI ON & DEVELOPMENT 8 (6): 477–490 - 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 Shedd, Jackson D. and Jonathan Q. Richmond. 2013. Conserved ontogeny of color pattern leads to the misdiagnosis of Scincid lizards of the Plestiodon skiltonianus species complex. Herpetological Review 44 (3): 417-420 - get paper here Smith, H.M. & Taylor,E.H. 1950. An annotated checklist and key to the reptiles of Mexico exclusive of the snakes. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 199: 1-253 - get paper here Stebbins,R.C. 1985. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston Tanner, W.W. 1988. Eumeces skiltonianus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 447: 1-4 - get paper here Taylor, E. H. 1936. A taxonomic study of the cosmopolitan lizards of the genus Eumeces with an account of the distribution and relationship of its species. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 23 (14): 1-643 [1935] - get paper here Taylor, E. H. 1943. Mexican lizards of the genus Eumeces, with comments on the recent literature on the genus. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 29 (5): 269-300 - get paper here Van Denburgh,J. 1895. A review of the herpetology of Lower California. Part I - Reptiles. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (2) 5: 77-163 - get paper here 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
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