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Plestiodon gilberti (Gilbert's Skink)

Synonyms: Eumeces gilberti; Eumeces gilberti arizonensis; Eumeces gilberti placerensis; Eumeces gilberti rubricaudatus

Wikipedia Abstract

Plestiodon gilberti, Gilbert's skink, is a species of heavy-bodied medium-sized lizard of the family of skinks. It is endemic to the southwestern United States, and grows to about 7 to 12 cm (3 to 4.5 in) in total length.
View Wikipedia Record: Plestiodon gilberti

Infraspecies

Plestiodon gilberti cancellosus (Variegated Skink)
Plestiodon gilberti gilberti (Greater Brown Skink)
Plestiodon gilberti placerensis (Northern Brown Skink)
Plestiodon gilberti rubricaudatus (Western Redtail Skink)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  20 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Terrestrial
Litter Size [3]  7
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [3]  3.15 inches (8 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No

Predators

Bubo virginianus (Great Horned Owl)[4]
Buteo albonotatus (Zone-tailed Hawk)[4]
Lampropeltis zonata (California Mountain Kingsnake)[5]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 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
♦ 3Nathan 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
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Feeding Ecology of the California Mountain Kingsnake, Lampropeltis zonata (Colubridae), Harry W. Greene and Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles, Copeia, 2003(2), pp. 308–314
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
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