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Plestiodon anthracinus (Coal Skink)

Synonyms: Eumeces anthracinus; Eumeces anthracinus pluvialis; Eumeces pluvialis

Wikipedia Abstract

Plestiodon anthracinus, the coal skink, is a species of lizard which is endemic to North America.
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Infraspecies

Plestiodon anthracinus anthracinus (Northern Coal Skink)
Plestiodon anthracinus pluvialis (Southern Coal Skink)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  4 grams
Female Weight [1]  4 grams
Gestation [1]  32 days
Litter Size [1]  8
Litters / Year [1]  1
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  2.362 inches (6 cm)
Habitat Substrate [2]  Terrestrial

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Meiri, 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
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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