Scincella assata (Cope, 1864)

Castiglia, Riccardo, Flores-Villela, Oscar Alberto, Bezerra, Alexandra M. R., Gornung, Ekaterina, Annesi, Flavia, Munoz-Alonso, Luis Antonio & Solano, Emanuela, 2020, Detection of cryptic diversity in lizards (Squamata) from two Biosphere Reserves in Mesoamerica, Comparative Cytogenetics 14 (4), pp. 613-638 : 613

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scientific name

Scincella assata (Cope, 1864)
status

 

Scincella assata (Cope, 1864)

Distribution.

This species is distributed from Colima state, Mexico, southwards to Chiapas state, on the Pacific coast, and towards the southwest to Guatemala and Honduras.

Samples.

RCMX85 (male*), RCMX86 (female*) and RCMX92 (female*) from La Sepultura, Chiapas, Mexico.

DNA taxonomy.

See below under S. cherriei (Cope, 1893) account.

Chromosomes.

The karyotype, described in Castiglia et al. (2013a) shows a diploid number of 2n = 28 and heteromorphic sex chromosomes. The diploid complement present four pairs of large metacentrics, two pairs of medium sized metacentrics, and one pair of heteromorphic (XY) sex chromosomes (pair 7; one small subtelocentric and one microchromosome). The remaining chromosomes are microchromosomes.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Scincidae

Genus

Scincella