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Coal Skink
Plestiodon anthracinus (Baird, 1849)

Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Coal Skink (Eumeces anthracinus: Jordan, David Starr. 1876. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi River, and North of North Carolina and Tennessee, Exclusive of Marine Species. Jansen, McClurg, and Company, Chicago, Illinois.. 342pp.); Anthracite Skink (Eumeces anthracinus: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Pluvial Skink (Eumeces pluvialis: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Coal Skink (Eumeces anthracinus: Hurter, Julius. 1911. Herpetology of Missouri. Transactions of the Academy of Science St. Louis 20(5):59-274); Coal Skink (Eumeces anthracinus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Baird's Skink (Eumeces anthracinus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Coal Skink (Eumeces anthracinus anthracinus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Southern Coal Skink (Eumeces anthracinus pluvialis: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
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GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1849 Baird, Spencer F. Descriptions of four new species of North American Salamanders, and one new species of Scink. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Series 2 1():292-294

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