Scincella Vandenburghi
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''Scincella vandenburghi'', also known commonly as the Korean skink, the Tsushima ground skink, and the Tsushima smooth skink, is a
species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of
skink Skinks are a type of lizard belonging to the family (biology), family Scincidae, a family in the Taxonomic rank, infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different taxonomic genera, the family Scincidae is one o ...
, a lizard in the
family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...
Scincidae. The species is
endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to
East Asia East Asia is a geocultural region of Asia. It includes China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan, plus two special administrative regions of China, Hong Kong and Macau. The economies of Economy of China, China, Economy of Ja ...


Geographic range

''S. vandenburghi'' is found on the
Korean peninsula Korea is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and smaller islands. Since the end of World War II in 1945, it has been politically divided at or near the 38th parallel between North Korea (Dem ...
and on Tsushima Island,
Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
.


Taxonomy

''Scincella vandenburghi'' may be a synonym of '' Scincella modesta''.


Etymology

''S. vandenburghi'' is named after
John Van Denburgh John Van Denburgh (August 23, 1872 – October 24, 1924) was an American herpetologist from California (who also used the name Van Denburgh in publications, hence this name is used below). Biography Van Denburgh was born in San Francisco and enr ...
, curator of herpetology at the
California Academy of Sciences The California Academy of Sciences is a research institute and natural history museum in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, that is among the largest List of natural history museums, museums of natural history in the world, housing over ...
.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Scincella vandenburghi'', p. 271).


Habitat

''S. vandenburghi'' inhabits temperate forests where it can be found on the forest floor.


Reproduction

''S. vandenburghi'' is
oviparous Oviparous animals are animals that reproduce by depositing fertilized zygotes outside the body (i.e., by laying or spawning) in metabolically independent incubation organs known as eggs, which nurture the embryo into moving offsprings kno ...
, laying one to nine eggs in early summer.


References


Further reading

* Park J, Koo K-S, Kim I-H, Park D (2016). "Complete mitochondrial genomes of ''Scincella vandenburghi'' and ''S. huanrenensis'' (Squamata: Scincidae)". ''Mitochondrial DNA Part B Resources'' 1 (1): 237–238. * Schmidt KP (1927). "Notes on Chinese Reptiles". ''Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist.'' 54 (4): 467–551. (''Leiolopisma vandenburghi'', new species, p. 501). Scincella Reptiles of Japan Reptiles of Korea Lizards of Asia Reptiles described in 1927 Taxa named by Karl Patterson Schmidt {{Sphenomorphinae-stub