Plestiodon dicei
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Plestiodon |
| Species: | P. dicei
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Plestiodon dicei, or Dice's short-nosed skink, is a species of lizard which is endemic to Mexico.[1] It was named in honor of Lee R. Dice, who collected the holotype in 1930 [2]: 1 p. while conducting a faunal survey in the Sierra de San Carlos, Tamaulipas, Mexico.[3] It was considered a subspecies of Plestiodon brevirostris for many decades.[4] Plestiodon dicei occurs in northeastern Mexico, in the Sierra Madre Oriental in Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, and Tamaulipas, with isolated populations in the Sierra de San Carlos and the Sierra de Tamaulipas. [5]: 28 p.
References
[edit]- ^ Plestiodon dicei at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 October 2020.
- ^ Ruthven, Alexander G. & Helen T. Gaige. 1933. A new skink from Mexico. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 260: 1-3.
- ^ Dice, Lee R. 1937. Mammals of the San Carlos Mountains and Vicinity. 245-267 pp. In Kellum, L. B. The Geology and Biology of the San Carlos Mountains, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Univ. Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. xi, 341 pp.
- ^ Dixon, James R. 1969. Taxonomic Review of the Mexican Skinks of the Eumeces brevirostris Group.Contributions in Science. 168: 1-30.
- ^ Feria-Ortiz, Manuel, Norma L. Manríquez-Morán, and Adrián Nieto-Montes de Oca. 2011. Species limits based on MTDNA and morphological data in the polotypic species Plestiodon brevirostris (Squamata: Scincidae). Herpetological Monographs 25: 25-51.
Further reading
[edit]- Ruthven, Alexander G. & Helen T. Gaige 1933. A new skink from Mexico. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 260: 1–3.
- Axtell, Ralph W. 1960. A New Subspecies of Eumeces dicei from the Sierra Madre of Northeastern Mexico. Copeia, 1960(1): 19–26.
- Dixon, James R. 1969. Taxonomic Review of the Mexican Skinks of the Eumeces brevirostris Group. Contributions in Science. No. 168: 1-30.
- Feria-Ortiz, Manuel, Norma L. Manríquez-Morán, and Adrián Nieto-Montes de Oca. 2011. Species limits based on MTDNA and morphological data in the polotypic species Plestiodon brevirostris (Squamata: Scincidae). Herpetological Monographs 25: 25–51.
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