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General remarks: The list includes only formally described species. Newly discovered, but still unnamed species are excluded. However, unnamed species or species unassigned to species level are included, if they are the only representatives of their genus in the region. Species counts exclude extinct and introduced species. Doubtful records, typically older voucher specimens of uncertain origin, have been excluded if considered questionable, as are records based on sources considered unreliable.
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Lizards (Sauria)
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Species
References
 Family Scincidae (Skinks)
Genus Marisora (Middle American Skinks)
 
Marisora brachypoda

Middle American Short-limbed Skink

Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Alvarez del Toro 1982 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 [as unimarginata] Burger 1952 [as alliacea] Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 [as unimarginata] Castro-Franco & Bustos-Zagal 1994 Castro-Franco & Bustos-Zagal 2003 Chávez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, García-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magaña 2015 [as unimarginata] Chrapliwy & Fugler 1955 [as alliacea] Cruz-Sáenz, Guerrero, Lazcano & Téllez-López 2009 [as unimarginata] Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Davis & Dixon 1961 Davis & Smith 1953a [as Mabuya m. mabouya] Duellman 1958b [as alliacea] Duellman 1965a Duellman 1965b Flores-Villela 1993 García-Padilla & Mata-Silva 2014 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 [as unimarginata] González-Sánchez, Johnson, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 Hedges & Conn 2012 Hernández-Ordóñez, Arroyo-Rodríguez, González-Hernández, Russildi, Luna-Reyes, Martínez-Ramos & Reynoso 2015 Holman 1964 Johnson 1990 [as unimarginata] Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Köhler 2000 [as unimarginata] Lara-Resendiz, Jiménes-Arcos, Palacios, Santos-Bibiano, Vega-Pérez & Larraín-Barrios 2017 Lee 1996 [as Mabuya unimarginata] Liner 1994 [as Mabuya unimarginata] Liner 2007 [as unimarginata] López-González & González-Romero 1997 [as unimarginata] Macip-Rios, Barrios-Quiroz, Sustaita-Rodríguez, Casas-Andreu & Aguilar-Miguel 2012 [as unimarginata] Martín-Regalado, Gómez-Ugalde & Cisneros-Palacios 2011 [as unimarginata] Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 McCoy & Horn 1962 Miralles & Carranza 2010 [as Mabuya unimarginata] Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Percino-Daniel, Cruz-Ocaña, Pozo-Ventura & Velázquez-Velázquez 2013 Pérez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Peña 2000 [as Mabuya unimarginata] Peters & Donoso-Barros 1970 [as alliacea] Ramirez-Bautista, Flores-Villela & Casas-Andreu 1982 Rioja-Paradela, Carrillo-Reyes, Castañeda & López 2013 Smith & Taylor 1950 [as Mabuya mabouya] Smith 1960 Wilson & Johnson 2010 [as unimarginata] Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017 Woolrich-Piña, Ponce-Campos, Loc-Barragán, Ramírez-Silva, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2016
Genus Mesoscincus (Central American Giant Skinks)
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Mesoscincus altamirani

Tepalcatepec Skink

Alvarado-Diaz & Suazo-Ortuño 2005 Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Carbajal-Márquez, Gonzalez-Saucedo, Quintero-Díaz, Arenas-Monroy & Domínguez-de la Riva 2012 Duellman 1958c Duellman 1965a Flores-Villela 1993 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Medina-Aguilar, Alvarado-Díaz & Suazo-Ortuño 2011 Mendoza-Hernández, Pérez-Ramos, Solano-Zavaleta & Roth-Monzón 2011 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
 
Mesoscincus schwarzei

Yucatan Giant Skink

Duellman 1965a Duellman 1965b Flores-Villela 1993 González-Sánchez, Johnson, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 Hernández-Ordóñez, Arroyo-Rodríguez, González-Hernández, Russildi, Luna-Reyes, Martínez-Ramos & Reynoso 2015 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Köhler 2000 Lee 1996 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Percino-Daniel, Arriaga & Rangel 2012 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
Genus Plestiodon (Blue-tailed Skinks)
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Plestiodon bilineatus

Two-lined Short-nosed Skink

Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Brandley, Ota, Hikida, Montes de Oca, Fería-Ortíz, Guo & Wang 2012 Bryson, Linkem, Pavón-Vázquez, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Klicka & McCormack 2017 Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Dixon 1969 Legler & Webb 1960 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007a Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Gadsden-Esparza, Valdez-Lares & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Woolrich-Piña & Cruz 2017 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Robinson 1979 Smith, Lemos-Espinal & Heimes 2005 Tanner 1987 Valdez-Lares, Muñiz-Martínez, Gadsden, Aguirre-León, Castañeda-Gaytán & González-Trápaga 2013 Webb & Baker 1962 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Plestiodon brevirostris

Short-nosed Skink

Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Axtell 1960 Brandley, Ota, Hikida, Montes de Oca, Fería-Ortíz, Guo & Wang 2012 Bryson, Linkem, Pavón-Vázquez, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Klicka & McCormack 2017 Camarillo-R. & Smith (in Strimple & Strimple) 1992 Canseco-Márquez, Mendoza-Quijano, Ponce-Campos 2007 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Castro-Franco & Bustos-Zagal 1994 Chávez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, García-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magaña 2015 Contreras Arquieta & Lazcano Villarreal 1995 Contreras-Lozano, Lazcano, Contreras-Balderas & Lavín-Murcio 2010 Cruz-Elizalde, Ramírez-Bautista, Johnson & Moreno 2014 Cruz-Sáenz, Guerrero, Lazcano & Téllez-López 2009 Dixon 1969 Flores-Villela 1993 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Gehlbach & Collette 1957 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Lazcano, Banda, Castañeda, Garcia-de la Peña & Rojas 2006 Lazcano, Contreras-Balderas, González-Rojas, Castañeda, García-de la Peña & Solis-Rojas 2004 Lazcano, Contreras-Lozano, Gallardo-Valdez, García del Peña & Castañeda 2009 Lemos-Espinal & Dixon 2013 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007b Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Liner, Johnson & Chaney 1976 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Medica, Arndt & Dixon 1975 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Pavón-Vázquez, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Mendoza-Hernández, Centenero-Alcalá, Santa Cruz-Padilla & Jiménez-Arcos 2017 Pérez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Peña 2000 Peterson, Canseco-Márquez, Contreras-Jiménez, Escalona-Segura, Flores-Villela, García-López, Hernandez-Baños, Jiménez-Ruiz, León-Paniagua, Amaro, Navarro-Sigüenza, Sánchez-Cordero & Willard 2004 Ramírez-Bautista, Hernández-Salinas, García-Vázquez, Leyte-Manrique & Canseco-Márquez 2009 Sanchez-Herrera & Lopez-Ortega 1987 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017 Woolrich-Piña, Ponce-Campos, Loc-Barragán, Ramírez-Silva, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2016 Zweifel 1954a
 
Plestiodon callicephalus

North American Mountain Skink

Chávez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, García-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magaña 2015 Cruz-Sáenz, Guerrero, Lazcano & Téllez-López 2009 [as tetragrammus] Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Enderson, Devender & Bezy 2014 Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Hardy & McDiarmid 1969 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007a Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Gadsden-Esparza, Valdez-Lares & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Woolrich-Piña & Cruz 2017 Lieb 1990 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 McDiarmid, Copp & Breedlove 1976 Robinson 1979 Rorabaugh 2008 Smith & Taylor 1950 Tanner 1987 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, Ponce-Campos, Loc-Barragán, Ramírez-Silva, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2016 Zweifel & Norris 1955 Zweifel 1962
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Plestiodon colimensis

Colima Skink

Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Chávez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, García-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magaña 2015 Dixon 1969 Duellman 1958b Duellman 1965a Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Flores-Villela 1993 Hardy & McDiarmid 1969 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Robinson 1979 Smith & Taylor 1950 Webb 1959 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Plestiodon copei

Central Mexican Blue-tailed Skink

Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Bryson, Linkem, Pavón-Vázquez, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Klicka & McCormack 2017 Camarillo-R. & Smith (in Strimple & Strimple) 1992 Castro-Franco & Bustos-Zagal 1994 Castro-Franco & Bustos-Zagal 2003 Davis & Smith 1953a Dixon 1969 Duellman 1965a Fernández, Sánchez & Flores-Villela 2006 Flores-Villela 1993 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Medina-Aguilar, Alvarado-Díaz & Suazo-Ortuño 2011 Pavón-Vázquez, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Mendoza-Hernández, Centenero-Alcalá, Santa Cruz-Padilla & Jiménez-Arcos 2017 Ramírez-Bautista, Godínez-Cano & Camarillo 1991 Ramírez-Bautista, Hernández-Salinas, García-Vázquez, Leyte-Manrique & Canseco-Márquez 2009 Smith & Taylor 1950 Uribe-Peña, Ramírez-Bautista & Casas-Andreu 1999 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017
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Plestiodon dicei

Tamaulipan Blue-tailed Skink

Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Axtell 1958 Brandley, Ota, Hikida, Montes de Oca, Fería-Ortíz, Guo & Wang 2012 Bryson, Linkem, Pavón-Vázquez, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Klicka & McCormack 2017 Contreras Arquieta & Lazcano Villarreal 1995 Dixon 1969 Fugler & Webb 1956 Lazcano, Farr, Lavín-Murcio, Contreras-Lozano, Kardon, Narváez-Torres & Cháves-Cisneros 2009 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Cruz 2016 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Martin 1958 Nevárez-de los Reyes, Lazcano, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Smith & Taylor 1950 Terán-Juárez, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Plestiodon dugesii

Guanajuato Blue-tailed Skink

Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Bryson, Linkem, Pavón-Vázquez, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Klicka & McCormack 2017 Chávez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, García-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magaña 2015 Cruz-Sáenz, Guerrero, Lazcano & Téllez-López 2009 Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Dixon 1969 Duellman 1965a Flores-Villela 1993 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Medina-Aguilar, Alvarado-Díaz & Suazo-Ortuño 2011 Ponce-Campos, Huerta-Ortega, Heinze-Yothers & Smith 2003 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
 
Plestiodon gilberti

North American Brown Skink

Flores-Villela 1993 Grismer 2002 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Jones 1985 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Zweifel 1952b
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Plestiodon indubitus

Mexican Short-nosed Skink

Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Auth, Smith & Chiszar 1997 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Brandley, Ota, Hikida, Montes de Oca, Fería-Ortíz, Guo & Wang 2012 Bryson, Linkem, Pavón-Vázquez, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Klicka & McCormack 2017 Camarillo-R. & Smith (in Strimple & Strimple) 1992 Castro-Franco & Bustos-Zagal 2003 Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Davis & Smith 1953a Dixon 1969 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Pavón-Vázquez, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Mendoza-Hernández, Centenero-Alcalá, Santa Cruz-Padilla & Jiménez-Arcos 2017 Pérez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Peña 2000 Reyes-Velasco, Hermosillo-Lopez, Grünwald & Avila-Lopez 2009 Robinson 1979 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Plestiodon lagunensis

San Lucan Skink

Grismer 1996 Grismer 2002 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Plestiodon lotus

Balsas Blue-tailed Skink

Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Pavón-Vázquez, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Mendoza-Hernández, Centenero-Alcalá, Santa Cruz-Padilla & Jiménez-Arcos 2017
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Plestiodon lynxe

Oak Forest Skink

Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Bryson, Linkem, Pavón-Vázquez, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Klicka & McCormack 2017 Camarillo-Rangel & Casas-Andreu 2001 Canseco-Márquez, Smith, Ponce-Campos, Flores-Villela & Campbell 2007 Carbajal-Márquez, Quintero-Díaz & Chávez-Floriano 2015 Chávez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, García-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magaña 2015 Cruz-Elizalde & Ramírez-Bautista 2012 Cruz-Sáenz, Guerrero, Lazcano & Téllez-López 2009 Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Darling & Smith 1954 Dixon & Lemos-Espinal 2010 Dixon, Ketchersid & Lieb 1972 Farr, Lavín Murcio & Lazcano 2007 Fernandez-Badillo & Goyenechea 2010 Fernández-Bodillo, Manríquez-Morán, Castillo-Cerón & Goyenechea 2016 Flores-Villela 1993 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Legler & Webb 1960 Lemos-Espinal & Dixon 2013 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2015 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Gadsden-Esparza, Valdez-Lares & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 McCranie & Wilson 2001 Mendoza-Quijano Mejenes-López Reynoso-Rosales Estrada-Hernández Rodríguez-Blanco 2001 Parker 1960 Pavón-Vázquez, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Mendoza-Hernández, Centenero-Alcalá, Santa Cruz-Padilla & Jiménez-Arcos 2017 Ponce-Campos & Romero-Contreras 2006 Ramírez-Bautista & Cruz-Elizalde 2013 Ramírez-Bautista, Hernández-Salinas, García-Vázquez, Leyte-Manrique & Canseco-Márquez 2009 Ramírez-Bautista, Hernández-Salinas, Mendoza-Quijano, Cruz-Elizalde, Stephenson, Vite-Silva & Leyte-Manrique 2010 Smith & Taylor 1950 Taylor 1949a Taylor 1952 Taylor 1953d Terán-Juárez, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Valdez-Lares & Gadsden 2014 Valdez-Lares, Muñiz-Martínez, Gadsden, Aguirre-León, Castañeda-Gaytán & González-Trápaga 2013 Vazquez-Diaz & Quintero-Diaz 2005 Vite-Silva, Ramírez-Bautista & Hernández-Salinas 2010 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson & McCranie 1979 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017 Woolrich-Piña, Ponce-Campos, Loc-Barragán, Ramírez-Silva, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2016
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Plestiodon multilineatus

Chihuahua Skink

Flores-Villela 1993 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007a Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Woolrich-Piña & Cruz 2017 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Tanner 1987 Tanner 1988 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
 
Plestiodon multivirgatus

North American Many-lined Skink

Flores-Villela 1993 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007a Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Woolrich-Piña & Cruz 2017 Mecham 1980 Robinson 1979 Smith & Taylor 1950 Tanner 1987 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Plestiodon nietoi

La Llave Blue-tailed Skink

Feria-Ortiz & García-Vázquez 2012 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Pavón-Vázquez, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Mendoza-Hernández, Centenero-Alcalá, Santa Cruz-Padilla & Jiménez-Arcos 2017 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
 
Plestiodon obsoletus

Great Plains Skink

Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Castañeda G., García-de la Peña, Lazcano & Salas-Westphal 2005 Contreras Arquieta & Lazcano Villarreal 1995 Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Farr, Lavín Murcio & Lazcano 2007 Flores-Villela 1993 Gadsden, Estrada-Rodrigues & Leyva-Pacheco 2006 Hall 1976 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Lemos-Espinal & Dixon 2013 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007a Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007b Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Cruz 2016 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Gadsden-Esparza, Valdez-Lares & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Woolrich-Piña & Cruz 2017 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Nevárez-de los Reyes, Lazcano, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Rorabaugh 2008 Smith & Taylor 1950 Tanner 1987 Terán-Juárez, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Valdez-Lares, Muñiz-Martínez, Gadsden, Aguirre-León, Castañeda-Gaytán & González-Trápaga 2013 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Plestiodon ochoterenae

Guerreran Skink

Bryson, Linkem, Pavón-Vázquez, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Klicka & McCormack 2017 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Davis & Dixon 1961 Dixon 1969 Flores-Villela 1993 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Pavón-Vázquez, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Mendoza-Hernández, Centenero-Alcalá, Santa Cruz-Padilla & Jiménez-Arcos 2017 Pérez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Peña 2000 Smith & Rangel 1992 Smith & Taylor 1950 Smith, Chiszar & Breukelen 1997 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Plestiodon parviauriculatus

Northern Pygmy Skink

Bryson, Linkem, Pavón-Vázquez, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Klicka & McCormack 2017 Enderson, Devender & Bezy 2014 Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Flores-Villela 1993 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007a Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Woolrich-Piña & Cruz 2017 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 McDiarmid, Copp & Breedlove 1976 Robinson 1979 Rorabaugh 2008 Smith & Taylor 1950 Tanner 1987 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Plestiodon parvulus

Southern Pygmy Skink

Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Bryson, Linkem, Pavón-Vázquez, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Klicka & McCormack 2017 Chávez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, García-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magaña 2015 Cruz-Sáenz, Guerrero, Lazcano & Téllez-López 2009 Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Duellman 1958b Duellman 1965a Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Flores-Villela 1993 Hardy & McDiarmid 1969 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Ramirez-Bautista, Flores-Villela & Casas-Andreu 1982 Robinson 1979 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, Ponce-Campos, Loc-Barragán, Ramírez-Silva, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2016
 
Plestiodon skiltonianus

Western Skink

Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Flores-Villela 1993 Grismer 2002 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Smith & Taylor 1950 Tanner 1988 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Zweifel 1952b
 
Plestiodon sumichrasti

Veracruz Blue-tailed Skink

Alvarez del Toro & Smith 1956 Alvarez del Toro 1982 Bryson, Linkem, Pavón-Vázquez, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Klicka & McCormack 2017 Calderon, Cedeño-Vázquez & Pozo 2003 Calderón-Mandujano & Mora-Tembre 2004 Canseco-Márquez & Ramírez-Gonzalez 2015 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Ceron de la Luz, Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 Flores-Villela 1993 González, Brenis & Arrazola 2014 González-Sánchez, Johnson, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 Hernández-Ordóñez, Arroyo-Rodríguez, González-Hernández, Russildi, Luna-Reyes, Martínez-Ramos & Reynoso 2015 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Köhler 2000 Lee 1996 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 McCoy & Miller 1963 McCoy 1995 Pavón-Vázquez, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Mendoza-Hernández, Centenero-Alcalá, Santa Cruz-Padilla & Jiménez-Arcos 2017 Peters & Donoso-Barros 1970 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
 
Plestiodon tetragrammus

North American Four-lined Skink

Anderson 1962b Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Campos-Rodriguez, Elizalde-Arellano, Lopez-Vidal, Aguilar-Martinez, Ramos-Reyes & Hernandez-Arciga 2009 Contreras Arquieta & Lazcano Villarreal 1995 Contreras-Lozano, Lazcano, García-Salas & Contreras-Balderas 2013 Cruz-Elizalde, Ramírez-Bautista, Johnson & Moreno 2014 Darling & Smith 1954 Dixon & Lemos-Espinal 2010 Dixon, Ketchersid & Lieb 1972 Flores-Hernández & Fernández-Badillo 2017 Flores-Villela 1993 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Lazcano, Farr, Lavín-Murcio, Contreras-Lozano, Kardon, Narváez-Torres & Cháves-Cisneros 2009 Lemos-Espinal & Dixon 2013 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007a Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007b Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2015 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Cruz 2016 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Woolrich-Piña & Cruz 2017 Lieb 1990 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Liner, Johnson & Chaney 1977 Martin 1958 Nevárez-de los Reyes, Lazcano, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Pérez-Higareda & Navarro 1980 Smith & Darling 1952 Smith & Taylor 1950 Tanner 1987 Taylor 1949a Taylor 1952 Terán-Juárez, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Zweifel 1954a
Genus Scincella (South Asian and American Ground Skinks)
 
Scincella assata

Central American Ground Skink

Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Alvarez del Toro & Smith 1956 Alvarez del Toro 1982 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Chávez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, García-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magaña 2015 Cruz-Sáenz, Guerrero, Lazcano & Téllez-López 2009 Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Davis & Dixon 1961 Duellman 1958b Duellman 1965a Flores-Villela 1993 Johnson 1990 Johnson, Ely & Webb 1976 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Köhler 2000 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Rocha, Wilson, Simón-Salvador, Mayoral-Halla, Montiel-Altamirano & Ramírez-Bautista 2017 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 McCoy & Horn 1962 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Percino-Daniel, Cruz-Ocaña, Pozo-Ventura & Velázquez-Velázquez 2013 Pérez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Peña 2000 Peters & Donoso-Barros 1970 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Scincella caudaequinae

Horsetail Falls Ground Skink

Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 [as s. silvicola] Campos-Rodriguez, Perez-Valera, Evaristo-Aguilar, Elizalde-Arellano, Lopez-Vidal & Hernandez-Arciga 2010 Contreras Arquieta & Lazcano Villarreal 1995 Cruz-Elizalde, Ramírez-Bautista, Johnson & Moreno 2014 [as silvicola] Dixon & Lemos-Espinal 2010 [as S. silvicola] Dixon, Ketchersid & Lieb 1972 Farr, Lazcano & Lavín-Murcio 2013 [as silvicola] García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez & Nieto-Montes de Oca 2010 Garcia-Vazquez, Lazcano-Villarreal, Garcia-de la Peña & Castañeda 2005 García-Vázquez, Mendoza-Quijano & Canseco-Marquez 2004 Lazcano, Banda, Castañeda, Garcia-de la Peña & Rojas 2006 Lazcano, Contreras-Lozano, Gallardo-Valdez, García del Peña & Castañeda 2009 Lemos-Espinal & Dixon 2013 [as silvicola] Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 [as silvicola] Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Cruz 2016 [as silvicola] Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Martin 1958 [as "Leiolopisma silvicolum (sp.?)"] Nevárez-de los Reyes, Lazcano, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 [as silvicola] Smith & Taylor 1950 Taylor 1952 Taylor 1953d Terán-Juárez, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 [as silvicola]
 
Scincella cherriei

Central American Brown Forest Skink

Alvarez del Toro & Smith 1956 Alvarez del Toro 1982 Calderon, Cedeño-Vázquez & Pozo 2003 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Cedeño-Vázquez, Calderón & Pozo 2003 Ceron de la Luz, Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 Duellman 1965a Flores-Villela 1993 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Aguilar-López, Solano-Zavaleta & Maceda-Cruz 2009 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 González-Sánchez, Johnson, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 Hernández-Ordóñez, Arroyo-Rodríguez, González-Hernández, Russildi, Luna-Reyes, Martínez-Ramos & Reynoso 2015 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Köhler 2000 Lee 1996 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Peters & Donoso-Barros 1970 Shreve 1957 Smith & Taylor 1950 Valdenegro-Brito, García-Morales, Sánchez-García & García-Vázquez 2016 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017
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Scincella forbesorum

Hidalgan Forest Ground Skink

García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez & Nieto-Montes de Oca 2010 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Smith & Taylor 1950
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Scincella gemmingeri

Mexican Forest Ground Skink

Auth, Brown, Smith & Chiszar 1999 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Brattstrom & Adis 1952 Canseco-Marquez, Gutierrez-Mayen & Salazar-Arenas 2000 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Ceron de la Luz, Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 Cruz-Elizalde & Ramírez-Bautista 2012 Fernández-Badillo, Aguillón-Gutiérrez, Valdez-Rentería, Hernández-Melo, Olvera-Olvera, Callejas-Jiménez, Hernández-Ramos, Iturbe-Morgado, Torres-Angeles & Reaño-Hernández 2016 Fernández-Bodillo, Manríquez-Morán, Castillo-Cerón & Goyenechea 2016 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez & Nieto-Montes de Oca 2010 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2015 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Luna-Reyes, García-Vázquez & Mendoza-Hernández 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Ramírez-Bautista & Cruz-Elizalde 2013 Ramírez-Bautista, Hernández-Salinas, Mendoza-Quijano, Cruz-Elizalde, Stephenson, Vite-Silva & Leyte-Manrique 2010 Smith & Taylor 1950 Vite-Silva, Ramírez-Bautista & Hernández-Salinas 2010 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017
 
Scincella incerta

Guatemalan Ground Skink

Flores-Villela 1993 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Nelson & Nickerson 1966
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Scincella kikaapoa

Coahuila Ground Skink

García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez & Nieto-Montes de Oca 2010 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 [as "kikaapoda" (lapsus)]
 
Scincella lateralis

North American Ground Skink

Flores-Villela 1993 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez & Nieto-Montes de Oca 2010 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Gadsden-Esparza, Valdez-Lares & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Lemos-Espinal, Wylie & Smith 2017 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Smith, Auth & Chiszar 1997 Valdez-Lares, Muñiz-Martínez, Gadsden, Aguirre-León, Castañeda-Gaytán & González-Trápaga 2013 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Scincella silvicola

Veracruz Ground Skink

Darling & Smith 1954 Flores-Villela 1993 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez & Nieto-Montes de Oca 2010 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2015 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Ramírez-Bautista, Hernández-Salinas, Mendoza-Quijano, Cruz-Elizalde, Stephenson, Vite-Silva & Leyte-Manrique 2010 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017