Eutropis macularia

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Bronze Mabuya
at Pocharam lake, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Sauria
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Eutropis
Species: E. macularia
Binomial name
Eutropis macularia
(Blyth, 1853)
Synonyms

Mabuya macularia (Blyth, 1853)

at Pocharam lake, Andhra Pradesh, India.

The Bronze Mabuya or Bronze Grass Skink (Eutropis macularia) is a species of skink found in Asia.

Description

at Pocharam lake, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Snout short, obtusely keeled, acuminate. Louver eyelid scaly. Nostril behind vertical of suture between rostral and first labial; no postnasal; anterior loreal deeper and shorter than second; frontonasal as long as broad or a little broader than long, in contact with the rostral and uMiallv also with the frontal; latter as long as the frontoparietals and interparietal together or a little longer, in contact with the second, or first and second, supraoculars ; 4 supraoculars, second largest; 5 supraciliaries, third longest; frontoparietals distinct, larger than the interparietal, which entirely separates the parietals: a pair of nuchals ; 4, exceptionally 3, labials anterior to the subocular, which is large and not narrowed below. Ear-opening oval, as large as a lateral scale, or a little smaller, with or without a few very indistinct lobules anteriorly. Dorsal, nuchal, and lateral scales with 5 to 7 sharp keels; 26 to 30 scales round the middle of the body, subequal. The adpressed limbs meet or overlap. Digits short; subdigital lamellae smooth. Scales on upper surface of tibia mostly bicannate. Tail 1.25 to 1.75 times the length of head and body. Brown or olive-brown above, sides darker and usually with white black-edged spots; back uniform, or black-spotted, or with one or two black longitudinal lines; sometimes two light lateral lines on each side, well marked only on the neck; lower surfaces yellowish (in spirit).[1] From snout to vent 2.5 inches ; tail 3.6.

Distribution

Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh ?, Myanmar (= Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, N West Malaysia Type locality: Rangpur, Bengal [India]

Notes

  1. Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.

References

  • Annandale, N. 1909 Rec. Ind. Mus. 3: 257
  • Blanford,W.T. 1879 Notes on a collection of reptiles and frogs from the neighbourhood of Ellore and Dumagudem. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal xlviii: 109-116
  • Blyth,E. 1854 Notices and descriptions of various reptiles, new or little-known. Part I. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 22 [1853]: 639-655
  • Das I. 1991 A new species of Mabuya from Tamil Nadu State, Southern India (Squamata: Scincidae). Journal of Herpetology 25 (3): 342-344.
  • Mausfeld,P.; Vences, M. Schmitz, A. & Veith, M. 2000 First data on the molecular phylogeography of scincid lizards of the genus Mabuya. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 17 (1): 11-14

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