Scincella beddomei

Scincella beddomei is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to southwestern India.

Scincella beddomei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Scincella
Species:	S. beddomei
Binomial name
Scincella beddomei (Boulenger, 1887)
Synonyms
Lygosoma beddomii Boulenger, 1887 Leiolopisma beddomei — M.A. Smith, 1935 Scincella beddomi — Greer, 1974 Kaestlea beddomi — Eremchenko & Das, 2004[1]

Etymology

The specific name, beddomi (also spelled beddomii or beddomei ), is in honor of Richard Henry Beddome, British military officer and naturalist.[2]

Geographic range

S. beddomei is found in India in the Nilgiri Hills and the Travancore Hills.

References

1. "Keastlea beddomei ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
2. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Scincella beddomi, p. 21).

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. Lacertidæ, Gerrhosauridæ, Scincidæ, Anelytropsidæ, Dibamidæ, Chamaeleontidæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I- XL. ("Lygosoma beddomii ", new species, p. 261 + Plate XVIII, Figure 3).
• Eremchenko VK, Das I (2004). "Kaestlea: a new genus of scincid lizards (Scincidae: Lygosominae) from the Western Ghats, south-western India". Hamadryad 28 (1&2): 43–50.
• Greer AE (1974). "The generic relationships of the scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives". Australian J. Zool. (Suppl.) 31: 1-67.
• 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. (Leiolopisma beddomei, p. 305).