El Sabino (42); La Placita; Playa Azul; Tzitzio (3).
Previously this species has been reported from La Placita as Mabuya mabouya alliacea by Peters (1954:15). Webb (1958:1311) provided evidence that Mexican specimens were conspecific with Mabuya brachypoda, as described from Costa Rica by Taylor (1956:308). The large series in the Taylor collection studied by Webb and listed by him as being from Uruapan actually is part of a series collected by Hobart M. Smith at El Sabino at an elevation of 1050 meters, 30 kilometers south of Uruapan.
This species probably ranges throughout the coastal region of the state; individuals from La Placita and Playa Azul were taken in dense scrub forest near sea level.
Scincella assata taylori (Oliver)
Leiolopisma assatum taylori Oliver, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 360:12, November 20, 1937.—Santiago, Colima, México.
Scincella assata taylori, Mittleman, Herpetologica, 6:20, June 5, 1950.
Twenty-one km. S of Arteaga; Ostula.
The specimen from Ostula was obtained in semi-deciduous broad-leaf forest at an elevation of 120 meters; that from 21 kilometers south of Arteaga was taken in oak forest at an elevation of 830 meters. Both localities are on the coastal slopes of the Sierra de Coalcomán. Probably the species inhabits the heavy forests on the lower slopes of these mountains. The specimen from south of Arteaga (UMMZ 119117) in life had a tan dorsum and a bright orange-pink tail.
Eumeces altamirani Dugès
Eumeces altamirani Dugès, La Naturaleza, ser. 2, 1:485, 1891.—Apatzingán, Michoacán, México.