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Scincella caudaequinae
In Jaumave, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Scincella
Species:	S. caudaequinae
Binomial name
Scincella caudaequinae (Smith, 1951)
Synonyms
Leiolopisma caudaequinae Smith, 1951 Scincella silvicola caudaequinae Darling and Smith, 1954

Scincella caudaequinae, commonly known as the Horsetail Falls ground skink, is a species of reptile in the family Scincidae that is endemic to Mexico. It was named for the type locality "Horsetail Falls, 25 miles south of Monterrey, Nuevo, Leon". Scincella caudaequinae occurs in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental in Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, southeast Coahuila, and Tamaulipas. It was considered a subspecies of Scincella silvicola for many decades.

References

1. Liner, E. A. and G. Casas-Andreu. 2008. Standard Spanish, English and scientific names of the amphibians and reptiles of Mexico. Society for the Study Amphibians and Reptiles. Herpetological Circular 38: i-iv, 1-162.
2. Scincella caudaequinae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 26 July 2020.
3. Smith, Hobart M. 1951. A new species of Leiolopisma (Reptilia: Sauria) from Mexico. University of Kansas Science Bulletin. 34 (3): 195-200.
4. Smith, H. M. and E. H. Taylor. 1966. Herpetology of Mexico: Annotated Checklist and Keys to the Amphibians and Reptiles. A reprint of Bulletins 187, 194 and 199 of the U. S. Nat. Mus. with a list of subsequent taxonomic innovations. Eric Lundberg, Ashton, Maryland.
5. García-Vázquez, Uri Omar, David Lazcano-Villarreal, Maria Cristina Garcia-de la Peña, and Gamaliel Castañeda. 2005. Scincella silvicola caudaequinae (Horsetail Falls Ground Skink). Mexico: Coahuila. Herpetological Review 36(3): 337.
6. Martin, Paul S. 1958. A Biogeography of Reptiles and Amphibians in the Gomez Farías Region, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, 101: 1-102.
7. Farr, William L., David Lazcano and Pablo A. Lavin-Murcio. 2013. New Distributional Records for Amphibians and Reptiles from the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico III. Herpetological Review 44(4): 631-645.
8. Darling, Donald, M. and Hobart M. Smith. 1954. A collection of reptiles and amphibians from eastern Mexico. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 57(2): 180-195.

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