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Scincella vandenburghi (Tsushima smooth skink)

Synonyms: Leiolopisma laterale; Leiolopisma vandenburghi

Wikipedia Abstract

Scincella vandenburghi (Korean skink, Tsushima ground skink or Tsushima smooth skink) is a species of skink on the Korean peninsula and Tsushima Island. It might be a synonym of Scincella modesta. It is named after John Van Denburgh, curator of herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences. This species inhabits temperate forests where it can be found on the forest floor. It is oviparous, laying one to nine eggs in early summer.
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Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Terrestrial
Litter Size [2]  5
Litters / Year [2]  1
Reproductive Mode [1]  Oviparous

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Central Korean deciduous forests Republic of Korea, Dem. People's Rep of Korea Palearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Southern Korea evergreen forests South Korea Palearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Taiheiyo evergreen forests Japan Palearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Japan Japan No

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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
♦ 2Nathan 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
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