Mesoscincus
Genus of lizards
Mesoscincus | |
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Mesoscincus schwartzei | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Scincidae |
Subfamily: | Scincinae |
Genus: | Mesoscincus Griffith, Ngo & Murphy, 2000 |
Mesoscincus[1] is a genus of lizards, comprising three species of skinks native to Mexico and Central America. The species were formerly included in the genus Eumeces.
Species
- Mesoscincus altamirani (Dugès, 1891) – Tepalcatepec skink – Mexico
- Mesoscincus managuae (Dunn, 1933) – Managua skink – Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala[2] and El Salvador
- Mesoscincus schwartzei (Fischer, 1884) – Mayan black-headed skink, Schwartze's skink – Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Mesoscincus.
References
Further reading
- Griffith, Hugh; Ngo, André; Murphy, Robert W. (2000). "A Cladistic Evaluation of the Cosmopolitan Genus Eumeces Wiegmann (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincidae)". Russian Journal of Herpetology 7 (1): 1–16. (Mesoscincus, new genus).
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