{{Short description|Species of lizard}} {{Speciesbox | image = Scincella barbouri from Kunming 01.jpg | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref =<ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Rao, D.-Q. |date=2019 |title=''Scincella barbouri'' |volume=2019 |article-number=e.T102649460A102649497 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T102649460A102649497.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}</ref> | genus = Scincella | species = barbouri | authority = ([[Leonhard Stejneger|Stejneger]], 1925) | range_map = | synonyms = *''Leiolopisma barbouri'' <br />{{small|Stejneger, 1925}} *''Scincella barbouri'' <br />{{small|— [[Allen Eddy Greer|Greer]], 1974}} | synonyms_ref = <ref name=RDB/> }}
'''''Scincella barbouri''''', also known [[Common name|commonly]] as '''Barbour's ground skink''', is a [[species]] of [[lizard]] in the [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] [[Scincidae]]. The species is [[Endemism|endemic]] to [[China]].
==Etymology== The [[Specific name (zoology)|specific name]], ''barbouri'', is in honor of American herpetologist [[Thomas Barbour]].<ref>[[Richard Allen "Bo" Crombet-Beolens|Beolens B]], [[Michael Watkins (zoologist)|Watkins M]], [[Michael Grayson|Grayson M]] (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (''Scincella barbouri'', p. 16).</ref>
==Geographic range== ''S. barbouri'' is found in [[Yunnan]] province, southwestern China. It may possibly also occur in adjacent [[Sichuan]] province.<ref name=RDB>{{NRDB species|genus=Scincella|species=barbouri|accessdate=22 March 2020}}</ref>
==Habitat== The preferred natural [[habitat]] of ''S. barbouri'' is [[shrubland]], at altitudes of {{convert|1,800|–|2,500|m|ft|abbr=on}}.<ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021" />
==Reproduction== ''S. barbouri'' is [[Oviparity|oviparous]].<ref name=RDB/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *[[Leonhard Stejneger|Stejneger L]] (1925). "Description of a new scincid lizard and a new burrowing frog from China". ''Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences'' '''15''': 150–152. (''Leiolopisma barbouri'', new species, pp. 150–151.
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[[Category:Scincella]] [[Category:Reptiles described in 1925]] [[Category:Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger]]
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