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Plestiodon brevirostris (Shortnose Skink)

Synonyms: Eumeces brevirostris; Eumeces dicei pineus; Mabouia brevirostris

Infraspecies

Plestiodon brevirostris brevirostris
Plestiodon brevirostris pineus

Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Terrestrial
Reproductive Mode [1]  Viviparous

Predators

Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk)[2]
Falco sparverius (American Kestrel)[2]

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
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
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