Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Scincidae > Brachymeles > Brachymeles mindorensis

Brachymeles mindorensis (Graceful Short-legged Skink)

Synonyms: Brachymeles boulengeri mindorensis

Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Fossorial, Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Mindanao-Eastern Visayas rain forests Philippines Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sulu Archipelago rain forests Philippines Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Palawan Biosphere Reserve 2843689 Philippines  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Philippines Philippines Yes

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0