Lygosoma bowringii

Lygosoma bowringii, commonly known as the Bowring's supple skink, Bowring's writhing skink, or the Christmas Island grass-skink, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Southeast Asia.

Lygosoma bowringii
Lygosoma bowringii
from Bulon Le Island, Andaman Sea, Thailand
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Lygosoma
Species:
L. bowringii
Binomial name
Lygosoma bowringii
(Günther, 1864)
Synonyms[1]
  • Eumeces bowringii
    Günther, 1864
  • Lygosoma bowringii
    — Boulenger, 1887
  • Riopa bowringii
    — Taylor, 1922
  • Mochlus bowringii
    — Ebenhard & Sjögren, 1984
  • Lygosoma bowringii
    — Cogger, 1994

Etymology

The specific name, bowringii, is in honor of either John Charles Bowring, who was a British amateur naturalist and businessman in Hong Kong, or his father John Bowring, who was a British diplomat and a governor of Hong Kong.[2]

Geographic range
West Malaysia, Pulau Tioman, Johor
Pulau Besar, Pulau Sibu; India (Andaman Islands),
Philippines (Sulu Archipelago),
Indonesia (Borneo, Sumatra ?, Java, Sulawesi),
China (Hong Kong ), Singapore, India,
Indochina west to Myanmar (= Burma), Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia,
Australia (Cook Islands)

Type locality: Hong Kong.

References
  1. "Lygosoma bowringii ". 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. (Lygosoma bowringii, p. 36).

Further reading
  • Boulenger GA (1887). "An account of the Scincoid Lizards collected from Burma for the Genoa Civic Museum by Messrs. G.B. Comotto and L. Fea". Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, Series 2, 4: 618–624.
  • Günther A (1864). The Reptiles of British India. London: The Ray Society. (Taylor & Francis, printers). xxvii + 452 pp. + Plates I-XXVI. (Eumeces bowringii, new species, p. 91).
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