Spondylurus sloanii

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]

Spondylurus sloanii
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Spondylurus
Species:	S. sloanii
Binomial name
Spondylurus sloanii (Daudin, 1803)
Synonyms[2]
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

Etymology

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

Habitat

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

Reproduction

S. sloanii is viviparous.[2]

References

1. Hedges B (2013). "Spondylurus sloanii ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T47103310A47103318. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T47103310A47103318.en. Downloaded on 18 April 2020.
2. Spondylurus sloanii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 September 2019.
3. 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).

Further reading

• 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).