Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
By 1823
Primary Source Reference:
Edwin James, Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819 and '20, by Order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War: Under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long. From the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other Gentlemen of the Exploring Party, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1823), 2: 324-325
Notes:
This species was also described by Richard Harlan (who called it Scincus unicolor). in "Description of a Variety of the Coluber fulvius, Linn., a New Species of Scincus, and Two New Species of Salamandra," Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. 5, part 1 (1825): 154-158 (described on p. 156) / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24657202
Harlan wrote: "This species, the smallest of the family, belongs to the collection of the Philadelphia Museum; it is not known certainly from whence it came, but is supposed to inhabit the Southern States" (p. 156).
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Little brown skink
Current Scientific Name
Scincella lateralis
