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Spondylurus sloanii

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Species of lizard

Spondylurus sloanii
Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Spondylurus
Species: S. sloanii
Binomial name
Spondylurus sloanii
(Daudin, 1803)
Synonyms
  • Scincus sloanii
    Daudin, 1803
  • Spondylurus sloanei
    — Fitzinger, 1826
  • Tiliqua sloanii
    — Gray, 1831
  • Eumeces sloanii
    A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839
  • Mabouya sloanei
    — Gray, 1845
  • Mabuya sloanii
    — Bocourt, 1879
  • Mabuia sloanii
    — Garman, 1887
  • Mabuya mabouya sloanii
    — Dunn, 1936
  • Mabuya sloanii
    — Mayer & Lazell, 2000
  • Spondylurus sloanii
    — Hedges & Conn, 2012

Spondylurus sloanii, also known commonly as Sloane's skink or the Virgin Islands bronze skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is native to the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.

Etymology

The specific name, sloanii, is in honor of British naturalist Hans Sloane.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of S. sloanii are the intertidal zone and shrubland.

Reproduction

S. sloanii is viviparous.

References

  1. ^ Hedges, B. (2013). "Spondylurus sloanii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T47103310A47103318. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T47103310A47103318.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ Spondylurus sloanii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 September 2019.
  3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Mabuya sloanii, p. 246).

Further reading

  • Daudin FM (1802). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Reptiles; Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon; et rédigée par C.S.Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Tome quatrième . Paris: F. Dufart. 397 pp. (Scincus sloanii, new species, pp. 287–290). (in French and Latin).
  • Hedges SB, Conn CE (2012). "A new skink fauna from Caribbean Islands (Squamata, Mabuyidae, Mabuyinae)". Zootaxa 3288: 1–244. (Spondylurus sloanii, pp. 201–207).
Taxon identifiers
Spondylurus sloanii


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