Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Subordo: Scincomorpha
Superfamilia: Scincoidea
Familia: Scincidae
Genus: Mesoscincus
Species: M. altamirani - M. managuae - M. schwartzei
Name
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
Genus Mesoscincus at The Reptile Database.
Ariano-Sánchez, Daniel; Urbina, Antonio; Salazar, Gilberto (2010). "Geographic distribution: Mesoscincus managuae (Managua skink)". Herpetological Review 41 (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 Herpetology 7 (1): 1-16. (Mesoscincus, new genus).
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