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Article Category: Research Article
| Online Publication Date: 26 Feb 2010
Skeletochronology of the Threatened Florida Sand Skink, Plestiodon (Neoseps) reynoldsi
Skeletochronology of the Threatened Florida Sand Skink, Plestiodon (Neoseps) reynoldsi
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Page Range: 38 – 40
DOI: 10.1643/CH-07-161
Analysis of skeletochronological variation in fibulae of the threatened Florida Sand Skink, Plestiodon (Neoseps) reynoldsi, found numbers of growth marks that almost always exceeded the maximum life span predicted by mark–recaptures studies. We propose that the large number of growth marks observed in the Florida Sand Skink reflect variation in food availability.Abstract
Copyright: 2010 by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Contributor Notes
Associate Editor: D. Kizirian.
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Department of Biology, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., SCA 110, Tampa, Florida 33620-5150; E-mail: (EDM) mccoy@cas.usf.edu; and (HRM) mushinsk@cas.usf.edu. Send reprint requests to HRM.
Received: 31 Jul 2007
Accepted: 28 Sept 2009