Dasia johnsinghi
Taxonavigation
editTaxonavigation: Scincoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Mabuyinae
Genus: Dasia
Species: Dasia johnsinghi
Name
editDasia johnsinghi Harikrishnan, Vasudevan, de Silva, Deepak, Kar, Naniwadekar, Lalremruata, Prasoona & Aggarwal, 2012: 497
- Holotype: ZSI 25946, adult ♂, collected by K. Vasudevan on 25 January 2005.
- Type locality: “Servalar, Kani Kudi (latitude N 8.65354°, longitude E 77.31387°; WGS 84 datum) in a riverine forest habitat, Mundanthurai plateau, Tamil Nadu, India”.
- Etymology: Named after Dr. Asir Jawahar Thomas Johnsingh, who deposited the paratype in the collection of Bombay Natural History Society and has made numerous valuable contributions to natural history studies in India.
References
editPrimary references
edit- Harikrishnan, S., Vasudevan, K., de Silva, A., Deepak, V., Kar, N.B., Naniwadekar, N., Lalremruata, A., Prasoona, K.R. & Aggarwal, R.K. 2012. Phylogeography of Dasia Gray, 1830 (Reptilia: Scincidae), with the description of a new species from southern India. Zootaxa 3233(1): 37–51. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3233.1.3 Reference page.
Links
edit- Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Dasia johnsinghi. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 18 January 2023.
- Narayanan, S., Achyuthan, N.S. & Ganesh, S.R. 2021. IUCN: Dasia johnsinghi (Data Deficient). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T102342933A102342935. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T102342933A102342935.en. Accessed on 18 January 2023.