Spondylurus Culebrae
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The Culebra skink (''Spondylurus culebrae'') 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 ...
found on Culebra and on
Culebrita Culebrita Island (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Isla Culebrita,'' meaning "little snake island") is a small, uninhabited island off the eastern coast of the island-Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality of Culebra, Puerto Rico, Culebra in the ...
, an uninhabited island off Culebra, in
Puerto Rico ; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Government of Puerto Rico, self-governing Caribbean Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island organized as an Territories of the United States, unincorporated territo ...
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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3493725 Spondylurus Reptiles described in 2012 Reptiles of the Caribbean Endemic fauna of the Caribbean Taxa named by Stephen Blair Hedges Taxa named by Caitlin E. Conn