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Western Skink – Eumecia skiltonianus skiltonianus and utahensis
Eumeces skiltonianus, the Western Skink, is a plentiful, shy, somewhat obscure lizard that occupies the United States in areas west of
the Rocky Mountains. It was once believed that all skinks in the area were stages or sub-species of the species skiltonianus, but beginning
in 1935 it was discovered that there were several, less numerous but distinctly separate species within the Eumeces genus (Rogers and
Fitch 1947). [eng]
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