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Plestiodon capito (BOCOURT, 1879)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Gail's Eyelid Skink
Chinese: 黄纹石龙子 
SynonymEumeces capito BOCOURT 1879: 429
Eumeces xanthi GÜNTHER 1889: 220
Eumeces xanthi — BARBOUR 1912: 134
Eumeces pekinensis STEJNEGER 1924
Eumeces pekinensis — STEJNEGER 1926: 49
Eumeces xanthi — TAYLOR 1936: 239
Eumeces capito — BRYGOO 1985: 20
Eumeces capito — GRIFFITH, NGO & MURPHY 2000
Plestiodon capito — SCHMITZ et al. 2004
Plestiodon capito — CHEN et al. 2020 
DistributionN China (southward to Hubei and Sichuan)

Type locality: China; erroneously given as United States (see Smith 1975 and BRYGOO 1985: 20)  
Reproductionoviparous (reported for xanthi). 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 5531
Holotype: USNM 60863 [Eumeces pekinensis] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Taylor 1936: 239


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References
  • Barbour, Thomas 1912. Some Chinese Vertebrates: Amphibia and Reptilia. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy 40 (4): 125-136 - get paper here
  • Blackburn, D.G. 1993. STANDARDIZED CRITERIA FOR THE RECOGNITION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN SQUAMATE REPTILES. Herpetologica 49 (1): 118-132 - get paper here
  • Bocourt, M. F. 1879. Etudes sur les reptiles, p. i-xiv, 1-1012. In Recherches Zoologiques pour servir a l'Histoire de Ia Faune de l'Amérique Centrale et du Mexique. Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale, Recherches zoologiques. Part 2, sect. 1; In A Imprimerie Impériale, Paris [3, Pt. 6], pp. 360–440. - 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
  • Chen, M., Liu, J., Chen, D. et al. 2020. Complete mitochondrial genome of a blue-tailed skink Plestiodon capito (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincidae) and comparison with other Scincidae lizards. Genetica (2020) - 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
  • Günther,A. 1889. Third contribution to ourknowledge of reptiles and fishes from the Upper Yangtsze-Kiang. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 4 (21): 218-229 - get paper here
  • Hikida, T. & Motokawa, J. 1999. Phylogeographical relationships of the skinks of the genus Eumeces (Reptilia; Scincidae) in East Asia. in: Ota, H. (ed.) Tropical Island Herpetofauna, pp. 231-247 - 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
  • Smith, Hobart M., ROZELLA B. Smith, and JEAN GUIBÉ 1975. The identity of Bocourt's lizard Eumeces capito 1879. Great Basin Naturalist. 35 (1): 109-112. - get paper here
  • Stejneger, L. 1925. Chinese amphibians and reptiles in the United States National Museum. Proc. US Natl. Mus. 66 (2562): 1-115. - get paper here
  • Stejneger, LEONHARD H. 1924. Herpetological novelties from China. Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 119-121 - 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
  • 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, Jianguo 2015. Can changes in the distribution of lizard species over the past 50 years be attributed to climate change? Theoretical and Applied Climatology, DOI<br>10.1007/s00704-015-1553-4 - get paper here
  • Xu, W., & Zhu, W. 2024. First karyological analysis of Plestiodon capito (Squamata: Scincidae). Cytologia, 89(2), 147-151
  • Zhao,E. & Adler,K. 1993. Herpetology of China. SSAR, Oxford/Ohio, 1-522
 
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