Species

Plestiodon capito

Plestiodon capito · described by (BOCOURT 1879)

Plestiodon anthracinus, a close relative of Plestiodon capito

Pictured: Plestiodon anthracinus, a close relative from the same genus. This species is still waiting for its first free photo.

Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The facts

Scientific name
Plestiodon capito
First described
(BOCOURT 1879)
Class
Reptiles (Reptilia)
Order
Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)
Group
Lizards (Sauria)
Family
Scincidae
Genus
Plestiodon

Taxonomic data: Uetz, P. et al. (eds.), The Reptile Database, under CC-BY 4.0.

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