Dasia (genus)

Dasia is a genus of lizards, commonly known as tree skinks or dasias, in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to Asia.[1][2]

Tree skinks
Dasia johnsinghi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Subfamily: Mabuyinae
Genus: Dasia
Gray, 1839

Species

The genus Dasia contains ten species which are recognized as being valid.[3]

References

  1. Wrobel, Murray (2004). Elsevier's Dictionary of Reptiles: in Latin, English, German, French and Italian. Amsterdam: Elsevier. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-444-51499-8.
  2. Inger, Robert F.; Brown, Walter C. (1980). "Species of the Scincid Genus Dasia Gray". Fieldiana Zoology. Field Museum of Natural History. New Series (3): 1–11. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.3190. ISSN 0015-0754.
  3. Genus Dasia at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

  • Gray JE (1839). "Catalogue of the Slender-tongued Saurians, with Descriptions of many new Genera and Species". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [First Series] 2: 331-337. (Dasia, new genus, p. 331; D. olivacea, new species, p. 331).
  • Harikrishnan S, Vasudevan K, De Silva A, Deepak V, Kar NB, Naniwadekar R, Lalremruata A, Prasoona LR, Aggarwal RK (2012). "Phylogeography of Dasia Gray, 1830 (Reptilia: Scincidae), with the description of a new species from southern India". Zootaxa 3233: 37-51. Preview. (Dasia johnsinghi, new species).
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