Spondylurus sloanii

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.[2]

Spondylurus sloanii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Spondylurus
Species:
S. sloanii
Binomial name
Spondylurus sloanii
(Daudin, 1803)
Synonyms[2]
  • 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

Etymology

The specific name, sloanii, is in honor of British naturalist Hans Sloane.[3]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of S. sloanii are the intertidal zone and shrubland.[1]

Reproduction

S. sloanii is viviparous.[2]

References
  1. Hedges B (2013). "Spondylurus sloanii ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T47103310A47103318. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T47103310A47103318.en. Downloaded on 18 April 2020.
  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 [Volume 4]. 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).



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