Talk:Bermuda skink

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Misnomer[edit]

This article is off to a bad start as it should be titled "Bermuda Skink or Rock Lizard".

Aodhdubh 14:36, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

REDIRECT. The title of this page is erroneous. "Bermuda rock lizard" is not the common name for this species, which is actually known as the "Bermuda skink" and MUCH less commonly as the "rock lizard" (not "Bermuda rock lizard", though it logically is the Bermuda rock lizard). This can be explored by searching the website of the Government of Bermuda's Department of Conservation Services ([1]), which records it as The Bermuda Skink (Plestiodon longirostris) or Bermuda Rock Lizard , or searching the website of the Royal Gazette, Bermuda's daily newspaper, in which searching the following search terms (in quotations) provides the numbers of results shown below:

BERMUDA SKINK https://www.royalgazette.com/?s=%22Bermuda+Skink%22 120 results

ROCK LIZARD https://www.royalgazette.com/search/?q=%5C%22rock+lizard%5C%22 37 results

BERMUDA ROCK SKINK https://www.royalgazette.com/search/?q=%5C%22Bermuda+Rock+Skink%5C%22 19 results

BERMUDA ROCK LIZARD https://www.royalgazette.com/search/?q=%5C%22Bermuda+rock+lizard%5C%22 34 results

Closer examination of the text of the articles shows that only "skink", "Bermuda skink", and "rock lizard" appear to be used in any of the articles (not a single use of "BERMUDA ROCK SKINK" or "BERMUDA ROCK LIZARD" that I have found). Aodhdubh (talk) 13:19, 5 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]