Critically Endangered
Huaren Ground Skink
Scincella huanrenensis
Huaren Ground Skink is a skink in the family Scincidae — Scincella huanrenensis, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to South Korea and China.
The skink
Published measurements include mass about 1.59 and length about 52.
Skinks are smooth-scaled lizards, often with reduced limbs in burrowing forms. Most eat insects and other small invertebrates.
Range and habitat
Huaren Ground Skink is a skink found in Liaoning in Northeast China and in Korea.
GBIF currently lists 71 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Most skinks forage in leaf litter or under cover. Burrowing species slip through sand or soil more than they climb.
In crisis
Huaren Ground Skink is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Scincella huanrenensis — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3475858 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
