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Scincella lateralis (Ground Skink, Little Brown Skink; ground skink)

Synonyms: Leiolopisma unicolor; Lygosoma laterale; Scincus laterale; Scincus lateralis

Wikipedia Abstract

Scincella lateralis is a small species of skink found throughout much of the eastern half of the United States, and into northern Mexico.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2 grams
Gestation [1]  36 days
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  3
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.575 inches (4 cm)
Habitat Substrate [2]  Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No

Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name Location  Website 
Interior Low Plateau Chestnut Oak Forest United States (Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee)
West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna (High Terraces Type) United States (Louisiana, Texas)

Predators

Agkistrodon piscivorus (conanti)[3]
Crotalus horridus (Timber rattlesnake (atricaudatus))[4]
Glaucidium brasilianum (Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl)[5]
Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum (cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl)[6]
Lanius ludovicianus (Loggerhead Shrike)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cosmocercoides variabilis <Unverified Name>[7]
Cylindrotaenia americana[7]
Mesocestoides tetrathyridium <Unverified Name>[7]
Physaloptera obtusissima[7]
Thubunaea leiolopismae <Unverified Name>[7]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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
♦ 3Sexual dimorphism in head shape and diet in the cottonmouth snake (Agkistrodon piscivorus), Shawn E. Vincent, Anthony Herrel and Duncan J. Irschick, J. Zool., Lond. (2004) 264, 53–59
♦ 4Diet of the Timber Rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus, Rulon W. Clark, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 494-499, 2002
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
♦ 6The Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl: Taxonomy, Distribution, and Natural History, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, W. Scott Richardson, Glenn A. Proudfoot, USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-43. 2000
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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