Plestiodon

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Scincomorpha Superfamilia: Scincoidea

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Scincinae
Genus: Plestiodon
Species (51): P. anthracinus – P. barbouri – P. bilineatus – P. brevirostris – P. callicephalus – P. capito – P. chinensis – P. colimensis – P. copei – P. coreensis – P. dicei – P. dugesii – P. egregius – P. elegans – P. fasciatus – P. finitimus – P. gilberti – P. indubitus – P. inexpectatus – P. japonicus – P. kishinouyei – P. kuchinoshimensis – P. lagunensis – P. laticeps – P. latiscutatus – P. leucostictus – P. liui – P. longiartus – P. longirostris – P. lotus – P. lynxe – P. marginatus – P. multilineatus – P. multivirgatus – P. nietoi – P. obsoletus – P. ochoterenae – P. oshimensis – P. parviauriculatus – P. parvulus – P. popei – P. quadrilineatus – P. reynoldsi – P. septentrionalis – P. skiltonianus – P. stimpsonii – P. sumichrasti – P. takarai – P. tamdaoensis – P. tetragrammus – P. tunganus

Name

Plestiodon Duméril & Bibron, 1839: 697

Type species: Lacerta quinquelineata Linnaeus, 1766, by subsequent designation by Fitzinger (1843: 22).

Synonyms

Pariocela Fitzinger, 1843: 22
- Type species: Scincus laticeps Schneider, 1801, by original designation.

Lamprosaurus Hallowell, 1852
- Type species: Lamprosaurus guttulatus Hallowell, 1852, by monotypy.

Neoseps Stejneger, 1910
- Type species: Neoseps reynoldsi Stejneger, 1910, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

Duméril, A.M.C. & Bibron, G. 1839. Erpétologie Générale on Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Tome cinquième. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret: Paris. VIII + 854 pp. BHL Reference page.
Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus. Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel: Wien. vi + 106 pp. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Griffith, H., Ngo, A. & Murphy, R.W. 2000. A Cladistic Evaluation of the Cosmopolitan Genus Eumeces Wiegmann (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincidae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 7(1): 1–16. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2000-7-1-1-16 [nonfunctional] Reference page.
Schmitz, A., Mausfeld, P. & Embert, D. 2004. Molecular studies on the genus Eumeces Wiegmann, 1834: phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic implications. Hamadryad 28(1–2): 73–89. ResearchGate Reference page.
Brandley, M.C., Schmitz, A. & Reeder, T.W. 2005. Partitioned Bayesian Analyses, Partition Choice, and the Phylogenetic Relationships of Scincid Lizards. Systematic Biology 54(3): 373–390. DOI: 10.1080/10635150590946808 Reference page.
Smith, H.M. 2005. Plestiodon: a replacement name for most members of the genus Eumeces in North America. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 14: 15–16. Reference page.
Brandley, M.C., Wang, Y.-Z., Guo, X.-G., Nieto-Montes de Oca, A., Feria-Ortiz, M., Hikida, T. & Ota, H.. 2011. Accommodating Heterogenous Rates of Evolution in Molecular Divergence Dating Methods: An Example Using Intercontinental Dispersal of Plestiodon (Eumeces) Lizards. Systematic Biology 60(1): 3–15. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syq045 Reference page.
Brandley, M.C., Ota, H., Hikida, T., Nieto-Montes de Oca, A., Feria-Ortiz, M., Guo, X.-G. & Wang, Y.-Z. 2012. The phylogenetic systematics of blue-tailed skinks (Plestiodon) and the family Scincidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165(1): 163–189. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00801.x Reference page.
Feria-Ortiz, M. & García-Vázquez, U.O. 2012. A new species of Plestiodon (Squamata: Scincidae) from Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero, México. Zootaxa 3339(1): 57–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3339.1.4 Reference page.
Okamoto, T. & Hikida, T. 2012. A new cryptic species allied to Plestiodon japonicus (Peters, 1864) (Squamata: Scincidae) from eastern Japan, and diagnoses of the new species and two parapatric congeners based on morphology and DNA barcode. Zootaxa 3436(1): 1–23. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3436.1.1 Reference page.
Kurita, K. & Hikida, T. 2014. A new species of Plestiodon (Squamata: Scincidae) from Kuchinoshima Island in the Tokara Group of the Northern Ryukyus, Japan. Zoological Science 31(7): 464–474. DOI: 10.2108/zs130267 Reference page.
Kurita, K., Nakamura, Y., Okamoto, T., Lin, S-M. & Hikida, T. 2017. Taxonomic reassessment of two subspecies of Chinese skink in Taiwan based on morphological and molecular investigations (Squamata, Scincidae). ZooKeys 687: 131–148. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.687.12742 Reference page.
Kurita, K., Ota, H. & Hikida, T. 2017. A new species of Plestiodon (Squamata: Scincidae) from the Senkaku Group, Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Zootaxa 4254(5): 520–536. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.5.2 Reference page.
Pavón-Vázquez, C.J., Nieto-Montes de Oca, A., Mendoza-Hernández, A.A., Centenero-Alcalá, E., Santa Cruz-Padilla, S.A. & Jiménez-Arcos, V.H. 2017. A New Species of Plestiodon (Squamata: Scincidae) from the Balsas Basin, Mexico. Zootaxa 4365(2): 149–172. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4365.2.3 Reference page.
García-Vázquez, U.O., Pavón-Vázquez, C.J., Feria-Ortiz, M. & Nieto-Montes de Oca, A. 2021. A New Species of Blue-Tailed Skink (Scincidae: Plestiodon) from the Sierra Madre del Sur, Mexico. Herpetologica 77(1): 85–93. DOI: 10.1655/0018-0831-77.1.85 Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., Reyes, F., Kudera, J. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Plestiodon . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 24 August 2022.

Vernacular names

English: Blue-tailed Skinks
日本語: トカゲ属