Eumeces blythianus

Eumeces blythianus, commonly known as Blyth's skink, is a species of skink endemic to South Asia.

Eumeces blythianus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Eumeces
Species:
E. blythianus
Binomial name
Eumeces blythianus
(Anderson, 1871)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mabouia blythiana
    Anderson, 1871
  • Eumeces blythianus
    — Boulenger, 1887
  • Novoeumeces blythianus
    — Griffith et al., 2000
  • Eumeces schneideri blythianus
    — Schmitz et al., 2004

Etymology

The specific name, blythianus, is in honor of English zoologist Edward Blyth (1810–1873), Curator of the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.[2]

Geographic range

E. blythianus is found in Afghanistan, India (Punjab), and Pakistan.[1]

gollark: Abacus esolang? How do they work?
gollark: Idea: electric abacus.
gollark: Good news, I was able to utilize apiotech to make osmarks.tk contain content from other blogs.
gollark: I honestly assumed they were.
gollark: https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/01/pkg-go-dev-sucks.htmlApparently Go packages *aren't* just conveniently fetched straight off a git repository?

References
  1. "Eumeces blythianus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. 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. (Eumeces blythianus, p. 28).

Further reading
  • Anderson J (1871). "On two Saurian genera Eurylpis and Plocederma, Blyth, with a description of a new species of Mabouia, Fitzinger". Proc. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1871: 180–192. ("Mabouia Blythianus ", new species, pp. 186–188).
  • Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Scincidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Eumeces blythianus, p. 385).
  • Schmitz A, Mausfeld P, Embert D (2004). "Molecular studies on the genus Eumeces Wiegmann, 1834: phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic implications". Hamadryad 28 (1-2): 73–89. (Eumeces schneideri blythianus, p. 74).
  • Smith MA (1935). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II.—Sauria. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 440 pp. + Plate I + 2 maps. (Eumeces blythianus, pp. 340–341).
  • Taylor EH (1936) [1935]. "A taxonomic study of the cosmopolitan lizards of the genus Eumeces with an account of the distribution and relationship of its species". Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 23 (14): 1–643.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.