Scincella caudaequinae

Scincella caudaequinae, commonly known as the Horsetail Falls ground skink[1] is endemic to Mexico.[2] It was named for the type locality "Horsetail Falls, 25 miles south of Monterrey, Nuevo, Leon".[3] Scincella caudaequinae occurs in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental in Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi,[4] southeast Coahuila,[5] and Tamaulipas.[6][7] It was considered a subspecies of Scincella silvicola for many decades.[8]

Scincella caudaequinae
Scincella caudaequinae in municipality of Jaumave, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Scientific classification Edit this 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

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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