Lygosoma

Lygosoma is a genus of lizards, commonly known as writhing skinks, which are members of the family Scincidae. Lygosoma is the type genus of the subfamily Lygosominae.

Lygosoma
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

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]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Lygosoma.

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References

  1. 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).
  2. Shea & Michels 2008.
  3. "Lygosoma ". Dahms Tierleben. http://www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/scincidae/lygosominae Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. "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
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