Scincella vandenburghi

Species of lizard

Scincella vandenburghi

Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Reptilia
Order:  | Squamata
Family:  | Scincidae
Genus:  | Scincella
Species:  |

S. vandenburghi

Binomial name
Scincella vandenburghi

(Schmidt, 1927)

Synonyms[2]

* Leiolopisma vandenburghi
Schmidt, 1927
* Scincella vandenburghi
— Greer, 1974

Scincella vandenburghi, also known commonly as the Korean skink, the Tsushima ground skink, and the Tsushima smooth skink, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to East Asia

## Geographic range

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S. vandenburghi is found on the Korean peninsula and on Tsushima Island, Japan.[2]

## Taxonomy

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Scincella vandenburghi may be a synonym of Scincella modesta.[1][2]

## Etymology

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S. vandenburghi is named after John Van Denburgh, curator of herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences.[2][3]

## Habitat

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S. vandenburghi inhabits temperate forests where it can be found on the forest floor.[1]

## Reproduction

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S. vandenburghi is oviparous, laying one to nine eggs in early summer.[1]

## References

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1. ^ a b c d Shin, Y.; Kidera, N.; Ota, H. (2021). "Scincella vandenburghi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T178539A96878281. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T178539A96878281.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
2. ^ a b c d Scincella vandenburghi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 24 October 2014.
3. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Scincella vandenburghi, p. 271).

## Further reading

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* Park J, Koo K-S, Kim I-H, Park D (2016). "Complete mitochondrial genomes of Scincella vandenburghi and S. huanrenensis (Squamata: Scincidae)". Mitochondrial DNA Part B Resources 1 (1): 237–238.
* Schmidt KP (1927). "Notes on Chinese Reptiles". Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist. 54 (4): 467–551. (Leiolopisma vandenburghi, new species, p. 501).

Taxon identifiers

Scincella vandenburghi|

* Wikidata: Q5128276
* Wikispecies: Scincella vandenburghi
* BOLD: 503495
* CoL: 4VK4F
* GBIF: 2461487
* iNaturalist: 37656
* IRMNG: 10997381
* IUCN: 178539
* NCBI: 1167960
* Observation.org: 103156
* RD: vandenburghi

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