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Lygosoma punctata is a species of skink. "..Individuals are secretive and their presence was usually made known by the flash of the bright red tail. The red is present on the tails of all young and half grown specimens, but tends to become completely obsolete in adult animals. [..] In the young tha tail, save in the basal region, is unspotted and of a uniformshade of red. As they grow older, the caudal scales develop small spots (even those on the ventral surface) and gradually the red (sometimes pink) colouration disappears. In the young black spots are contiguous forming continuous lines. On the head the dots are carried forward to the snout but later tend to form a more or less symmetrical pattern on the head scales." (from TAYLOR 1950) Distribution: India, Vietnam, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
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- Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
- Taylor, Edward H. 1950 Ceylonese lizards of the family Scincidae. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 33 (2): 481-518
