Spondylurus sloanii

Spondylurus sloanii
Conservation status
	; Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Spondylurus
Species:	S. sloanii
Binomial name
	Spondylurus sloanii; (Daudin, 1803)
Synonyms
	Scincus sloanii ; Daudin, 1803; Spondylurus sloanei ; — Fitzinger, 1826; Tiliqua sloanii ; — Gray, 1831; Eumeces sloanii ; A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839; Mabouya sloanei ; — Gray, 1845; Mabuya sloanii ; — Bocourt, 1879; Mabuia sloanii ; — Garman, 1887; Mabuya mabouya sloanii ; — Dunn, 1936; Mabuya sloanii ; — Mayer & Lazell, 2000; Spondylurus sloanii ; — Hedges & Conn, 2012;

Spondylurus sloanii, also known commonly as Sloane's skink or the Virgin Islands bronze skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is native to the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.^[2]

Etymology

The specific name, sloanii, is in honor of British naturalist Hans Sloane.^[3]

The preferred natural habitats of S. sloanii are the intertidal zone and shrubland.^[1]

S. sloanii is viviparous.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Hedges, B. (2013). "Spondylurus sloanii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T47103310A47103318. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T47103310A47103318.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c Spondylurus sloanii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 September 2019.
^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Mabuya sloanii, p. 246).

Daudin FM (1802). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Reptiles; Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon; et rédigée par C.S.Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Tome quatrième [Volume 4]. Paris: F. Dufart. 397 pp. (Scincus sloanii, new species, pp. 287–290). (in French and Latin).
Hedges SB, Conn CE (2012). "A new skink fauna from Caribbean Islands (Squamata, Mabuyidae, Mabuyinae)". Zootaxa 3288: 1–244. (Spondylurus sloanii, pp. 201–207).

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