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Big-eared Lipinia Lipinia macrotympanum is a species of skink found in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India.
[edit] Description
Body moderately slender. Snout rather attenuated and prolonged. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. Nostril pierced in the nasal; no supranasal; frontonasal in contact with the rostral, posteriorly just touching the frontal: 4 supraoculars: frontoparietal single; interparietal distinct; parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal; 4 pairs of nuchals; fifth upper labial under the orbit. Ear-opening very large, rounded, with a perfectly smooth edge all rouud. 22 smooth scales round the middle of the body, dorsals slightly larger than laterals. A pair of moderately enlarged preanals. Limbs proportionately developed, with the toes very slender. Head above brown, paler on the snout: 3 longitudinal white bands along the body, separated by 2 somewhat broader brown bands ; the median dorsal white band becomes obsolete at the root of the tail: labials and sides of head brownish, spotted with white; limbs above with very close longitudinal brown lines, digits powdered with pure white; lower portion oi the sides and lower surfaces livid carneous, tinged with bright orange on the lower belly and on the tail.[1] Total length 4 inches, of which the tail measures nearly 2.5. The type specimen was collected in the South Andaman on a sandy beach in the Macpherson's Straits.
- ^ Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.
[edit] References
- Das, I. 1997 Rediscovery of Lipinia macrotympanum (Stoliczka, 1873) from the Nicobar Islands, India. Asiatic Herpetological Research 7:23-26.
- Stoliczka,F. 1873 Notes on some Andamese and Nicobarese Reptiles, with the descriptions of three new species of lizards. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 42: 162-169
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