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Madrean Mountain Skink
Plestiodon callicephalus Bocourt, 1879 in Duméril, Mocquard, and Bocourt, 1870–1909

Current SSAR Comments:
“Madrean” was added to the standard English name of this species to make it more specific.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Mountain Skink (Eumeces callicephalus: 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
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1879 Bocourt, Marie F. Etudes sur les reptiles. [Studies on reptiles.] Pages 361–440 in Duméril, Mocquard, and Bocourt, 1870-1909. Recherches Zoologiques pour servir a l'Histoire de Ia Faune de l'Amérique Centrale et du Mexique. Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amér. Livraison 6. [ Zoological Research to be used in the History of the Fauna of Central America and Mexico. Scientific Mission to Mexico and America. Delivery 6]. Imprimerie Impériale [Imperial Printing Office], Paris, France. pp.
2016 Flores-Villela, Oscar, Roger Bour, and Kraig Adler. Publication history of the Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l’Amérique Centrale, reptiles and amphibians. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87(2016):1162–1167

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