Taxonomic corrections of certain verified non-indigenous reptiles from Florida reported by Krysko et al. (2011)
Author
Krysko, Kenneth L.
Author
Somma, Louis A.
Author
Rochford, Michael R.
Author
Gillette, Christopher R
Author
Enge, Kevin M.
Author
Cueva, Daniel
text
Zootaxa
2012
3199
66
68
journal article
45391
10.5281/zenodo.211866
5584919a-5b09-4555-93f1-6b0c9aa1b762
1175-5326
211866
SCINCIDAE
UF 153513 (Fig.
62
in
Krysko
et al
. 2011
; MorphoBank M88653) was reported as the Fire Skink,
Lepidothyris fernandi
(
Burton 1836
)
. However, W. Böhme and P. Wagner (personal communication) reidentified this photographic voucher as the Fire-sided Skink,
Trachylepis perrotetii
(
Duméril and Bibron 1839
)
, a morphologically similar species indigenous to a broad region extending from
Senegal
eastward to along the southern-facing coast of western Africa, into central Africa as far east as the northern
Congo Republic
(
Schmidt 1919
;
Welch 1982
). Gibbons
et al.
(2009) hypothesized that
T. perrotetii
would be introduced to Florida via the pet trade; however, they erroneously provided a photograph of
L. fernandi
as an illustration for
T. perrotetii
, thus illustrating the difficulty in distinguishing these two morphologically similar species.