Plestiodon ochoterenae, also commonly known as the Guerreran skink and el eslaboncillo de Guerrero in Mexican Spanish, is a species of lizard in the subfamily Scincinae of the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Sierra Madre del Sur in Guerrero, Mexico.

Etymology Plestiodon ochoterenae is named after Mexican biologist Isaac Ochoterena Mendieta (1885–1950). (Eumeces ochoterenae, p. 193).

Taxonomy A 2021 study determined that Plestiodon ochoterenae is most closely related to Plestiodon longiartus. (Plestiodon longiartus, new species).

Habitat The preferred natural habitat of Plestiodon ochoterenae is forest.

Reproduction Plestiodon ochoterenae is ovoviviparous.

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Further reading

(Eumeces ochoterenae, pp. 19–20).

(Eumeces ochoterenae, new species, pp. 129–133, unnumbered drawing, two views of head).