Mesoscincus

Mesoscincus
Mesoscincus schwartzei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Scinciformata
Infraorder:	Scincomorpha
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Mesoscincus Griffith, Ngo & Murphy, 2000

Mesoscincus ^[1] is a genus of lizards, comprising three species of skinks native to Mexico and Central America. The species were formerly included in the genus Eumeces .

Species

• Mesoscincus altamirani (Dugès, 1891) – Tepalcatepec skink – Mexico
• Mesoscincus managuae (Dunn, 1933) – Managua skink – Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala ^[2] and El Salvador
• Mesoscincus schwartzei (Fischer, 1884) – Mayan black-headed skink, Schwartze's skink – Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize

Nota bene : A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Mesoscincus.

References

1. Genus Mesoscincus at The Reptile Database.
2. Ariano-Sánchez, Daniel; Urbina, Antonio; Salazar, Gilberto (2010). "Geographic distribution: Mesoscincus managuae (Managua skink)". Herpetological Review41 (1): 107.

Further reading

• Griffith, Hugh; Ngo, André; Murphy, Robert W. (2000). "A Cladistic Evaluation of the Cosmopolitan Genus Eumeces Wiegmann (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincidae)". Russian Journal of Herpetology7 (1): 1–16. (Mesoscincus, new genus).