Lygosoma

Lygosoma quadrupes

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Lacertilia Infraordo: Scincomorpha Superfamilia: Scincoidea

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Lygosominae
Genus: Lygosoma
Species (16): L. angeli – L. bampfyldei – L. boehmei – L. corpulentum – L. haroldyoungi – L. isodactylum – L. kinabatanganensis – L. koratense – L. opisthorhodum – L. peninsulare – L. quadrupes – L. schneideri – L. siamense – L. singha – L. tabonorum – L. veunsaiensis

Name

Lygosoma Hardwicke & Gray, 1827: 228

• Type species: Lacerta serpens Bloch, 1776, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Hardwicke, T. & Gray, J.E. 1827. A synopsis of the species of saurian reptiles, collected in India by Major-General Hardwicke. The Zoological Journal 3: 213–229. BHL

Additional references

• Geissler, P. & Kupfer, A. 2019. On the taxonomic status of Lygosoma (Keneuxia) dubium Werner, 1909. Zootaxa 4543(2): 295–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4543.2.9 Reference page. 
• Freitas, E.S., Datta-Roy, A., Karanth, P., Grismer, L.L. & Siler, C.D. 2019. Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for African, Asian and Indian supple and writhing skinks (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 186(4): 1067–1096. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz001 Reference page. 
• Siler, C.D., Heitz, B.B., Davis, D.R., Freitas, E.S., Aowphol, A., Termprayoon, K. & Grismer, L.L. 2018. New Supple Skink, Genus Lygosoma (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae), from Indochina and Redescription of Lygosoma quadrupes (Linnaeus, 1766). Journal of Herpetology 52(3): 332–347. DOI: 10.1670/16-064 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, P., Reyes, R., Kudera, F. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Lygosoma . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 14 February 2019.

Vernacular names

English: Writhing Skinks

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