Sphenomorphus indicus
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Indian Forest Skink Sphenomorphus indicus is a species of skink. Distribution: S China (incl. Hainan, west to E Xizang = TIbet, and north to Henan, Shaanxi, and Gansu, Guangdong: Nan Ao Island), Bhutan, Taiwan, Thailand (likely in Bilauk Tuang mountain fide TAYLOR 1963: 1020), Vietnam, India (Darjeeling, Sikkim) east to Indochina and south to W Malaysia
Type locality: Sikkim, Himalayas.
[edit] External links
- EMBL reptile database
- http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Sphenomorphus_indicus.jpg
- http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Sphenomorphus_indicus2.jpg
- http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Sphenomorphus_indicus3.jpg
[edit] References
- Annandale,Nelson 1905 Contributions to Oriental Herpetology. Suppl. III. Notes on the Oriental lizards in the Indian Museum, with a list of the species recorded from British India and Ceylon. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (2) 1: 139-151
- Das,I. & Palden,J. 2000 A herpetological collection from Bhutan, with new country records. Herpetological Review 31 (4): 256-258
- Gray, J. E. 1853 Descriptions of some undescribed species of reptiles collected by Dr. Joseph Hooker in the Khassia Mountains, East Bengal, and Sikkim Himalaya. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) 12: 386 - 392
- Yang, Yuhua;Gao, Zhengfa;Zhao, Ermi 1989 Karyotypic studies of Sphenomorphus indicus (Scincidae) and Takydromus septentrionalis (Lacertidae) Chinese Herpetological Research 2 (1): 55-59
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