Plestiodon dicei
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Plestiodon dicei, or Dice's short-nosed skink, is a species of lizard which is endemic to Mexico. It was named in honor of Lee R. Dice, who collected the holotype in 1930 while conducting a faunal survey in the Sierra de San Carlos, Tamaulipas, Mexico. It was considered a subspecies of Plestiodon brevirostris for many decades. Plestiodon dicei occurs in northeastern Mexico, in the Sierra Madre Oriental in Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, and Tamaulipas, with isolated populations in the Sierra de San Carlos and the Sierra de Tamaulipas.
Ruthven, Alexander G. & Helen T. Gaige 1933. A new skink from Mexico. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 260: 1–3. Axtell, Ralph W. 1960. A New Subspecies of Eumeces dicei from the Sierra Madre of Northeastern Mexico. Copeia, 1960(1): 19–26.
Dixon, James R. 1969. Taxonomic Review of the Mexican Skinks of the Eumeces brevirostris Group. Contributions in Science. No. 168: 1-30. Feria-Ortiz, Manuel, Norma L. Manríquez-Morán, and Adrián Nieto-Montes de Oca. 2011. Species limits based on MTDNA and morphological data in the polotypic species Plestiodon brevirostris (Squamata: Scincidae... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cumbres de Monterrey National Park | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Tamaulipan Shortnose Skink sighting in Cumbres de Monterrey National Park on a given day, based on 17 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 22nd most-seen of the 43 reptiles we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February–April, June–July and September
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Tamaulipan Shortnose Skink in Cumbres de Monterrey National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May, August and October–January, the lowest months.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Tamaulipan Shortnose Skink sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Cumbres de Monterrey National Park, in our data
Cumbres de Monterrey National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Tamaulipan Shortnose Skink sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Tamaulipan Shortnose Skink is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Cumbres de Monterrey National Park (17 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
