The Mayan black-headed skink or Schwartze's skink (Mesoscincus schwartzei) is an extant species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is found in Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala.
Etymology The specific name, schwartzei, is in honor of "Dr. E. W. E. Schwartze" who was associated with the zoo in Hamburg, Germany.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Mesoscincus altamirani, p. 6; Mesoscincus schwartzei, p. 239). This probably refers to Erich Wilhelm Edmund Schwartze (1810–1885).
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