| Striped Grass Mabuya | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Sauria |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Eutropis |
| Species: | E. dissimilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Eutropis dissimilis (Hallowell, 1857) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Mabuya dissimilis (Hallowell, 1857) |
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The Striped Grass Mabuya (Eutropis dissimilis), also called Striped Grass Skink, is a species of skink found in South Asia.
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Snout moderate, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided semi-transparent disk. Nostril behind the vertical of the suture between the rostral and the first labial; no postnasal; anterior loreal in contact with the first labial; supranasals in contact behind the rostral; frontonasal broader than long; prefrontals forming a median suture; frontal in contact with the second supraocular only (exceptionally with the first as well); 4 supraoculars, second largest; 6 supraciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct, usually nearly as long as the frontal, and larger than the interparietal, which entirely separates the parietals; usually no distinct nuchals; 4, seldom 5, labials anterior to the subocular, which is about twice as long as the neighbouring shields and not narrowed below. Ear-opening oval, larger than a lateral scale, smaller than the eye-opening, with 3 or 4 short pointed lobules anteriorly. Dorsal scales strongly bicarinate, nuchals and laterals tricarinate; 34 to 36 scales round the middle of the body, subequal. The adpressed limbs overlap. Toes short; subdigital lamellae smooth. Tail about 2.6 times length of head and body. Olive or brownish above, black-spotted, and with 3 more or less distinct light longitudinal streaks, the vertebral sometimes absent; flanks white-spotted; a short horizontal white streak below the eye; lower surfaces whitish.[1] From snout to vent 3.5 inches; tail 5.5. Plains of Northern India, from Sind to Bengal, also in the "Western Himalayas (Chamba)".
India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar Type locality: Bengal