| Lygosoma | |
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| Lygosoma quadrupes | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Lygosominae |
| Genus: | Lygosoma Hardwicke & Gray, 1828[1] |
| Type species | |
| Anguis quadrupes Linnaeus, 1766 | |
| Species | |
| About 40, see text | |
Lygosoma is a genus of lizards, commonly known as supple skinks or writhing skinks, which are members of the family Scincidae. Lygosoma is the type genus of the subfamily Lygosominae.
Geographic range
Species of Lygosoma are found in India to southeast Asia.
Behavior
The common name, writhing skinks, refers to the way these stubby-legged animals move, snake-like but slower and more awkwardly.
Taxonomy
In the late 19th and early 20th century, Lygosoma was used as a "wastebin taxon", to which almost every newly described skink was assigned.[2]
Species
The following species are recognized.[3][4]
- Lygosoma albopunctatum (Gray, 1846) – white-spotted supple skink
- Lygosoma angeli (M.A. Smith, 1937) – Angel's writhing skink
- Lygosoma anguinum (Theobald, 1868)
- Lygosoma bampfyldei Bartlett, 1895 – Bampfylde's supple skink
- Lygosoma boehmei Ziegler et al., 2007
- Lygosoma bowringii (Günther, 1864) – Bowring's supple skink, Bowring's writhing skink, Christmas Island grass-skink
- Lygosoma corpulentum M.A. Smith, 1921 – fat skink
- Lygosoma frontoparietale (Taylor, 1962) – Taylor's writhing skink, pygmy supple skink
- Lygosoma goaensis (Sharma, 1976)
- Lygosoma guentheri (W. Peters, 1879) – Günther's supple skink, Günther's writhing skink
- Lygosoma haroldyoungi (Taylor, 1962) – banded supple skink, Harold's writhing skink, Harold Young's supple skink
- Lygosoma herberti M.A. Smith, 1916 – Herbert’s supple skink
- Lygosoma isodactylum (Günther, 1864) – Siamese writhing skink, even-toed supple skink
- Lygosoma kinabatanganensis Grismer, Quah, Duzulkafly, & Yambun, 2018 – Kinabatangan supple skink
- Lygosoma koratense M.A. Smith, 1917 – Korat supple skink, Koraten writhing skink
- Lygosoma lanceolatum Broadley, 1990 – Broadley's writhing skink
- Lygosoma lineata (Gray, 1839) – lined writhing skinkz, lined supple skink
- Lygosoma lineolatum (Stoliczka, 1870) – striped writhing skink
- Lygosoma malayana Grismer, Dzukafly, Muin, Quah, Karin, Anuar, & Freitas, 2019
- Lygosoma opisthorhodum F. Werner, 1910
- Lygosoma peninsulare Grismer, Quah, Duzulkafly, & Yambun, 2018
- Lygosoma popae (Shreve, 1940) – Pope's writhing skink
- Lygosoma pruthi (Sharma, 1977) – Pruthi's skink, Pruthi's supple skink
- Lygosoma punctata (Gmelin, 1799) – common dotted garden skink, common snake skink, punctate supple skink
- Lygosoma quadrupes (Linnaeus, 1766) – short-limbed supple skink, Linnaeus's writhing skink
- Lygosoma samajaya Karin, Freitas, Shonleben, Grismer, Bauer, & Das, 2018
- Lygosoma schneideri Werner, 1900 – Sumatran supple skink
- Lygosoma siamensis Siler, Heitz, Davis, Freitas, Aowphol, Termprayoon, & Grismer, 2018 – Siamese supple skink
- Lygosoma singha (Taylor, 1950)
- Lygosoma tabonorum Heitz, Diesmos, Freitas, Ellsworth, & Grismer, 2016 – Palawan supple skink
- Lygosoma veunsaiensis Geissler, Hartmann & Neang, 2012
- Lygosoma vosmaeri (Gray 1839) – Vosmer's writhing skink
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Lygosoma.
References
- ^ Hardwicke T, Gray JE (1828). "A Synopsis of the Species of Saurian Reptiles, collected in India by Major-General Hardwicke". The Zoological Journal 3: 213-229. (Lygosoma, new genus, p. 228).
- ^ Shea & Michels 2008.
- ^ "Lygosoma ". Dahms Tierleben. http://www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/scincidae/lygosominae Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Lygosoma ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
- Shea GM, Michels JP (2008). "A replacement name for Sphenomorphus keiensis (Kopstein, 1926) from the southeastern Moluccas, Indonesia (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) with a redescription of the species". Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 82 (52): 737-747. PDF