Eumeces Wiegmann, 1834

Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, Zootaxa 3855 (1), pp. 1-97 : 44

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0E2D2B7C-7A96-4CAB-87F2-87A785F88D7F
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5493396
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C387F2-FFA7-FF92-FF5B-4C46527FFBA0
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Eumeces Wiegmann, 1834
status

Treatment

A Palearctic genus with five currently recognized species. Even after retracting the Oriental and Nearctic species from the genus (today Plestiodon ), Eumeces still remains paraphyletic with respect to the genera Scincus and Scincopus ( Schmitz et al. 2004; Carranza et al. 2008; Pyron et al. 2013). Therefore, additional nomenclatural adjustments are needed to stabilize this taxonomically unsatisfactory situation.