Tropidophorus
Genus of lizards
Tropidophorus genus of semiaquatic lizards in the skink family (Scincidae), found in Indochina , Borneo , Sulawesi , and the Philippines . They are sometimes known as water skinks[ 1] [ 2]
Species
The following 29 species are recognized:[ 3]
Tropidophorus assamensis Annandale , 1912Tropidophorus baconi Hikida , Riyanto & Ota , 2003Tropidophorus baviensis Bourret , 1939Tropidophorus beccarii W. Peters , 1871Tropidophorus berdmorei (Blyth , 1853) – Berdmore's water skinkTropidophorus boehmei T.Q. Nguyen et al., 2010Tropidophorus brookei (Gray , 1845) – Brook's keeled skinkTropidophorus cocincinensis A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron , 1839Tropidophorus davaoensis Bacon , 1980Tropidophorus grayi Günther , 1861Gray's water skink,[ 4] Tropidophorus guangxiensis Y. Wen , 1992Tropidophorus hainanus M.A. Smith , 1923Tropidophorus hangnam Chuaynkern et al., 2005Tropidophorus iniquus Lidth de Jeude , 1905Tropidophorus laotus M.A. Smith, 1923 – Laotian water skink, Laotian keeled skinkTropidophorus latiscutatus Hikida et al., 2002 Tropidophorus matsuii Hikida et al., 2002 Tropidophorus microlepis Günther, 1861 – small-scaled water skinkTropidophorus micropus Lidth de Jeude, 1905 Tropidophorus misaminius Stejneger , 1908Tropidophorus mocquardii Boulenger , 1894Tropidophorus murphyi Hikida et al., 2002 – Murphy's water skinkTropidophorus noggei T. Ziegler et al., 2005Tropidophorus partelloi Stejneger, 1910 – Partello's waterside skinkTropidophorus perplexus Barbour , 1921Tropidophorus robinsoni M.A. Smith, 1919 – Robinson's water skink, Robinson's keeled skinkTropidophorus sebi Pui, Karin, Bauer, & Das, 2017 – Baleh water skinkTropidophorus sinicus Boettger , 1886Tropidophorus thai M.A. Smith, 1919 Thai water skink, Thai stream skinkNota bene binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Tropidophorus .
References
^ Das I [in French] (2010). A Field Guide to the Reptiles of South-East Asia . London: New Holland. 376 pp. ISBN 978-1-84773-347-4 ^ See IUCN search results for Tropidophorus
^ Genus Tropidophorus The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5 . (Tropidophorus grayi , p. 107; T. mocquardi , p. 181).
Further reading
Duméril AMC , Bibron G (1839). Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome cinquième [Volume 5]. Paris: Roret. viii + 854 pp. (Tropidophorus , new genus, pp. 554–556). (in French).
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