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1 March 2004 CLARIFICATION OF NAME USAGE FOR THE VARIABLE SKINK, EUMECES MULTIVIRGATUS EPIPLEUROTUS
Ralph W. Axtell, Hobart M. Smith
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Abstract

According to Dr. Philip Tibbs, past Secretary of the ICZN, and at the time speaking for the Commission, the name Eumeces epipleurotus Cope (1880) has priority over E. gaigeae Taylor (1935). E. epipleurotis is now considered a subspecies of E. multivirgatus.

Ralph W. Axtell and Hobart M. Smith "CLARIFICATION OF NAME USAGE FOR THE VARIABLE SKINK, EUMECES MULTIVIRGATUS EPIPLEUROTUS," The Southwestern Naturalist 49(1), 100, (1 March 2004). https://doi.org/10.1894/0038-4909(2004)049<0100:CONUFT>2.0.CO;2
Accepted: 4 March 2003; Published: 1 March 2004
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