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Krysko, Kenneth L., Somma, Louis A., Rochford, Michael R., Gillette, Christopher R, Enge, Kevin M. & Cueva, Daniel, 2012, Taxonomic corrections of certain verified non-indigenous reptiles from Florida reported by Krysko et al. (2011), Zootaxa 3199, pp. 66-68 : 67

SCINCIDAE

UF 153513 (Fig. 62 in Krysko et al. 2011; MorphoBank M88653) was reported as the Fire Skink, Lepidothyris fernandi ( Burton 1836) . However, W. Böhme and P. Wagner (personal communication) reidentified this photographic voucher as the Fire-sided Skink, Trachylepis perrotetii ( Duméril and Bibron 1839) , a morphologically similar species indigenous to a broad region extending from Senegal eastward to along the southern-facing coast of western Africa, into central Africa as far east as the northern Congo Republic ( Schmidt 1919; Welch 1982). Gibbons et al. (2009) hypothesized that T. perrotetii would be introduced to Florida via the pet trade; however, they erroneously provided a photograph of L. fernandi as an illustration for T. perrotetii , thus illustrating the difficulty in distinguishing these two morphologically similar species.