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Scincella stuarti (SMITH, 1941)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Stuart’s Brown Forest Skink
S: Eslaboncillo Pardo de Stuart 
SynonymLeiolopisma cherriei — SMITH 1939: 191
Lygosoma cherriei stuarti SMITH 1941: 81
Leiolopisma cherriei stuarti — SMITH 1946: 111
Leiolopisma cherriei stuarti — SMITH & LANGEBARTEL 1949: 410
Scincella cherriei stuarti — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 158
Scincella stuarti — GARCIA-VÁZQUEZ & FERIA-ORTIZ 2006
Sphenomorphus cherriei stuarti — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008
Scincella stuarti — VALDENEGRO-BRITO & GARCIA-VÁZQUEZ 2025 
DistributionMexico (C Veracruz, in foothills, southward to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; Oaxaca).

Type locality: Potrero Viejo, Veracruz.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: USNM 115174; H. M. Smith collector; paratypes (n=14): USNM 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (stuarti). Related to cherriei and assatum, having a single frontoparietal and a moderately large interparietal; no nuchals; scale rows 30 to 32. Like cherriei and different from assatum in having a blue or gray, banded tail pattern, and relatively long, stout legs not or little (maximum four scales) separated from each other when adpressed (separated only in adults measuring 45 mm. or more snout to vent). Different from cherriei in dorsal scale count, having 65 to 72 (average 69) dorsals, as opposed to 59 to 67 (average 63.2) in 39 c. cherriei. (Smith 1941: 181)


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CommentSee also: S. cherriei 
EtymologyNamed after L. C. Stuart, American herpetologist. 
References
  • Garcia-Vázquez, U. & Feria-Ortiz, M. 2006. Scincidos de México. Reptilia (Spain) (62): 78-83
  • Garcia-Vázquez, U. & Feria-Ortiz, M. 2006. Skinks of Mexico. Reptilia (GB) (49): 74-79 - get paper here
  • Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp.
  • Mata-Silva, Vicente, Jerry D. Johnson, Larry David Wilson and Elí García-Padilla. 2015. The herpetofauna of Oaxaca, Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 6–62 - 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
  • Smith, Hobart M. 1941. A new race of Lygosoma from Mexico. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 54: 181-182 - get paper here
  • Valdenegro-Brito, A. E. V., & García-Vázquez, U. O. 2025. Taxonomic status and sexual dimorphism of the brown forest skink, Scincella cherriei stuarti (Smith 1941)(Squamata: Scincidae). Zootaxa 5601(1): 109-126 - get paper here
 
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