Biology:Lygosoma bowringii

Short description: Species of lizard

Lygosoma bowringii
Lygosoma bowringii from Petchaburi Province, Thailand
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Lygosoma
Species:	L. bowringii
Binomial name
Lygosoma bowringii (Günther, 1864)
Synonyms
Eumeces bowringii Günther, 1864 Lygosoma bowringii — Boulenger, 1887 Riopa bowringii — Taylor, 1922 Mochlus bowringii — Ebenhard & Sjögren, 1984 Lygosoma bowringii — Cogger, 1994

Lygosoma bowringii, commonly known as the Bowring's supple skink, Bowring's writhing skink, or the Christmas Island grass-skink, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Southeast Asia.

Etymology

The specific name, bowringii, is in honor of either John Charles Bowring, who was a British amateur naturalist and businessman in Hong Kong, or his father John Bowring, who was a British diplomat and a governor of Hong Kong.

Geographic range

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: Hong Kong.

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (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, Series 2, 4: 618–624.
• Günther A (1864). The Reptiles of British India. London: The Ray Society. (Taylor & Francis, printers). xxvii + 452 pp. + Plates I-XXVI. (Eumeces bowringii, new species, p. 91).

External links

• Lygosoma bowringii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database

Wikidata ☰ Q2708447 entry