Scincella caudaequinae

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| image = Scincella caudaequinae, Horsetail Falls ground skink, Tamaulipas.jpg

| image_caption = In Jaumave, Tamaulipas, Mexico

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| genus = Scincella

| species = caudaequinae

| authority = (Smith, 1951)

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|Leiolopisma caudaequinae|Smith, 1951

|Scincella silvicola caudaequinae|Darling and Smith, 1954

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Scincella caudaequinae, commonly known as the Horsetail Falls ground skink, is a species of reptile in the family ScincidaeLiner, E. A. and G. Casas-Andreu. 2008. Standard Spanish, English and scientific names of the amphibians and reptiles of Mexico. Society for the Study Amphibians and Reptiles. Herpetological Circular 38: i-iv, 1-162. that is endemic to Mexico.{{NRDB species|genus=Scincella|species=caudaequinae|accessdate=26 July 2020}} It was named for the type locality "Horsetail Falls, 25 miles south of Monterrey, Nuevo, Leon".Smith, Hobart M. 1951. A new species of Leiolopisma (Reptilia: Sauria) from Mexico. University of Kansas Science Bulletin. 34 (3): 195-200. Scincella caudaequinae occurs in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental in Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi,Smith, H. M. and E. H. Taylor. 1966. Herpetology of Mexico: Annotated Checklist and Keys to the Amphibians and Reptiles. A reprint of Bulletins 187, 194 and 199 of the U. S. Nat. Mus. with a list of subsequent taxonomic innovations. Eric Lundberg, Ashton, Maryland. southeast Coahuila,García-Vázquez, Uri Omar, David Lazcano-Villarreal, Maria Cristina Garcia-de la Peña, and Gamaliel Castañeda. 2005. Scincella silvicola caudaequinae (Horsetail Falls Ground Skink). Mexico: Coahuila. Herpetological Review 36(3): 337. and Tamaulipas.Martin, Paul S. 1958. A Biogeography of Reptiles and Amphibians in the Gomez Farías Region, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, 101: 1-102.Farr, William L., David Lazcano and Pablo A. Lavin-Murcio. 2013. New Distributional Records for Amphibians and Reptiles from the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico III. Herpetological Review 44(4): 631-645. It was considered a subspecies of Scincella silvicola for many decades.Darling, Donald, M. and Hobart M. Smith. 1954. A collection of reptiles and amphibians from eastern Mexico. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 57(2): 180-195.