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Many-lined Skink
Plestiodon multivirgatus Hallowell, 1857

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arizona Colorado Nebraska New Mexico South Dakota Texas Utah Wyoming

First instance(s) of published English names:
Hayden's Skink (Eumeces leptogrammus: 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); Hallowell's Skink (Eumeces multivirgatus: 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); Warren's Skink (Warren's Skink: 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); Two-lined Skink (Eumeces gaigei: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Many-lined Skink (Eumeces multivirgatus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Pecos Skink (Eumeces taylori: 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

Selected References:
1857 Hallowell, Edward. Description of several new North American reptiles. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 9:215-216
1952 Brown, Bryce C. A noteable specimen of the Pecos skink. Herpetologica 8:101-102
1957 Mecham, John S. The taxonomic status of some southwestern skinks of the multivirgatus group. Copeia 1957(2):111-123
1959 Anderson, James D. and Daniel C. Wilhoft. A new subspecies of Eumeces multivirgatus from Mexico. Copeia 1959(1):57-60
1980 Mecham, John S. Eumeces multivirgatus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (241):1-2
2005 Smith, Hobart M. Plestiodon: A replacement name for most members of the genus Eumeces in North America. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (14):15-16
2011 Brandley, Matthew C., Yuezhao Wang, Xianguang Guo, Adrian Nieto Montes De Oca, Manuel Feria-Ortiz, Tsutomu Hikda, and Hidetoshi Ota. Accommodating heterogenous rates of evolution in molecular divergence dating methods: An example using intercontinental dispersal of Plestiodon (Eumeces) lizards. Systematic Biology 60(1):2-15
2012 Brandley, Matthew C., Hidetoshi Ota, Tsutomu Hikida, Adrian Nieto Montes de Oca, Manuel Feria-Ortiz, Xianguang Guo, and Yuezhao Wang. The phylogenetic systematics of blue-tailed skinks (Plestiodon) and the family Scincidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165(1):163-189

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