Eumeces schneideri (Daudin 1802)

Martin, Thomas Edward, Guillemin, Mathieu, Nivet-Mazerolles, Valentin, Landsmann, Cecile, Dubos, Jerome, Eudeline, Rémy, Stroud Abstract. - The, James T., Data, Uchkuduk. & Further, Navoi., 2017, The herpetofauna of central Uzbekistan, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 140) 11 (1), pp. 93-107 : 101

Berber Skink: Eumeces schneideri (Daudin 1802) (Scincidae) ( Plate 20 )

A widespread species found from North Africa to the Indian sub-continent. Within our study area, the species is known from a single individual found on rocky scree in a canyon within the mountains of the Sarmysh Nature Park on 26 May 2012. As we only spent a few days pros- pecting for herpetofauna in the Sarmysh area, it is hard to ascertain whether this species is genuinely rare here, or whether it is more common than our limited survey effort in appropriate habitats suggests. At the very least, it appears to be very localized and habitat-specific within central Uzbekistan. We never encountered the species in the steppe or in mountainous ecosystems immediately adjacent to the steppe (unlike other rocky habitat special- ists such as Paralaudakia lehmanni and Tenuidactylus fedtschenkoi ). The species has been previously mapped as occurring in our study area ( Sindaco and Jeremcenko 2008; BirdLife International 2016c).

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Plate 20. Eumeces schneideri (Photograph – TM).