Lygosoma bowringii

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Christmas Island Grass-skink
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Sauria
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Lygosoma
Species: L. bowringii
Binomial name
Lygosoma bowringii
(Günther, 1864)

Christmas Island Grass-skink or Bowring's Supple Skink Lygosoma bowringii is a species of skink found in Southeast Asia.

[edit] Distribution

West Malaysia, Pulau Tioman, Johor
Pulau Besar, Pulau Sibu; India (Andaman Islands),
Philippines (Sulu Archipelago),
Indonesia (Borneo, Sumatra ?, Java, Sulawesi),
China (Hong Kong ), Singapore, India,
Indochina west to [[Myanmar] (= Burma), Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia,
Australia (Cook Islands)

Type locality: Hongkong.

[edit] References

  • Boulenger,G.E. 1887 An account of the Scincoid lizards collected from Burma for the Genoa Civic Museum by Messrs. G.B. Comotto and L. Fea. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) 4: 618-624
  • Günther, A. 1864 The Reptiles of British India. London (Taylor & Francis), xxvii + 452 pp.

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