Plestiodon barbouri, also known commonly as Barbour's blue-tailed skink and Barbour's eyelid skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Ryukyu Islands (Japan).
Etymology The specific name, barbouri, is in honor of American herpetologist Thomas Barbour.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Eumeces barbouri, p. 16).
Geographic range P. barbouri is found on the Amami Islands and the Okinawa Islands in the Ryukyu Archipelago of Japan.
Habitat The preferred natural habitats of P. barbouri are forest and shrubland.
Reproduction The mode of reproduction of P. barbouri is unknown.
References
Further reading Schmitz A, Mausfeld P, Embert D (2004). "Molecular studies on the genus Eumeces Wiegmann 1834: phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic imlications". Hamadryad 28 (1–2): 73–89. (Plestiodon barbouri, new combination). Van Denburgh J (1912). "Concerning Certain Species of Reptiles and Amphibians from China, Japan, the Loo Choo Islands, and Formosa". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series 3: 187–257. (Eumeces barbouri, new species, pp. 215–216).