Plestiodon finitimus

Plestiodon finitimus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincoidea

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

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Scincinae
Genus: Plestiodon
Species: Plestiodon finitimus

Name

Plestiodon finitimus Okamoto & Hikida, 2012: 9

• Holotype: KUZ R65128, adult ♂, collected by Taku Okamoto on 16 June 2008.

• Type locality: “Ikegami, Ota Ward, Tokyo Metropolis, eastern Japan (site 11, Fig. 1, N35°35', E139°42' [WGS84 coordinate], 20 m alt.)”.

• Etymology: The Latin epithet finitimus means ‘adjacent’ or ‘neighboring’ and refers to the parapatric geographic range of this species with the two congeners P. latiscutatus and P. japonicus. The epithet also means ‘related to’ or ‘similar to’ and refers to the morphological similarity to P. latiscutatus and P. japonicus owing to their close kinship.

Mentions

• Scincus quinquelineatus Temminck & Schlegel, 1838: 99, 139 (in part)
• Plestiodon quinquelineatus Duméril & Bibron, 1839: 707 (in part)
• Plestiodon quinquelineatum Gray, 1845: 91
• Plestiodon quinquelineatum Bleeker, 1858: 205 (in part)
• Eumeces (Plestiodon) japonicus Böttger, 1878, p. 4 (in part)
• Eumeces japonicus Bocourt, 1879: 423 (in part)
• Eumeces japonicus Goris & Maeda, 2004, p. 162 (in part)
• Eumeces quinquelineatus Hilgendorf, 1880: 113
• Eumeces quinquelineatus Fritze, 1891: 239 (in part)
• Eumeces marginatus Boulenger, 1887: 371 (in part)
• Eumeces marginatus Okada, 1891: 70 (in part)
• Eumeces marginatus Böttger, 1893: 111 (in part)
• Eumeces marginatus Fritze, 1894: 860 (in part)
• Eumeces marginatus Elpatjevsky & Sabaneev, 1906: 255
• Eumeces latiscutatus latiscutatus Stejneger, 1907:195 (in part)
• Eumeces latiscutatus latiscutatus Van Denburgh, 1912: 213 (in part)
• Eumeces latiscutatus latiscutatus Okada, 1939: 162 (in part)
• Eumeces latiscutatus Barbour, 1909: 63 (in part)
• Eumeces latiscutatus Hatta, 1914: 31 (in part)
• Eumeces latiscutatus Nikolski, 1915: 508
• Eumeces latiscutatus Terentjev, 1923: 76
• Eumeces latiscutatus Pavlov, 1932: 8
• Eumeces latiscutatus Taylor, 1936: 276 (in part)
• Eumeces latiscutatus Nakamura & Uéno, 1963: 106 (in part)
• Eumeces latiscutatus Hikida, 1979: 38 (in part)
• Eumeces latiscutatus Hikida, 1993: 2 (in part)
• Eumeces latiscutatus Hikida, 1996: 80 (in part)
• Eumeces latiscutatus Hikida & Motokawa, 1999: 235 (in part)
• Eumeces latiscutatu Motokawa & Hikida, 2003: 97 ("eastern group")
• Eumeces latiscutatus Schmitz et al., 2004 (in part)
• Eumeces pekinensis Stejneger, 1925: 51 (in part, Ussuri coast population)
• Eumeces xanthi Taylor, 1936, p. 245 (in part, Ussuri coast population)
• Plestiodon japonicus Okamoto et al., 2006: 419 (in part)
• Plestiodon japonicus Okamoto & Hikida, 2009: 183 (‘northeastern lineage’ and ‘central lineage’)
• Plestiodon japonicus Brandley et al., 2011: 7
• Plestiodon japonicus Brandley et al., 2012: 166 (in part)

References

Primary references

• 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. 

Additional references

• Okamoto, T., Tsukamoto, S., Kuro-o, M., Kuriyama, T., & Motokawa, M., 2021. Complex Historical Biogeography of the Eastern Japanese Skink, Plestiodon finitimus (Scincidae, Squamata), Revealed by Geographic Variation in Molecular and Morphological Characters. Zoological Science, 38 (2): 148–161 doi:10.2108/zs200051
• Orlov, Nikolai L.; Yuri N. Sundukov, Larissa A. Sundukova, 2018. Record of a New Locality and General Distribution of the Far Eastern Skink (Plestiodon finitimus) on the Island of Kunashir (Kuril Archipelago, Far East of Russia). Russ. J. Herpetol. 25 (3): 227–235 online
• Sundukov, Yuri N.; Larissa A. Sundukova, Nikolai L. Orlov, 2020. Food Composition of the Far Eastern Skinks (Plestiodon finitimus) on the Kunashir Island (Kuril Islands, Russian Far East). Russian Journal of Herpetology 27 (5): 303–306 online

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Plestiodon finitimus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 31 October 2019.