Tropidophorus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincoidea

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

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Sphenomorphinae
Genus: Tropidophorus
Species (30): T. assamensis – T. baconi – T. baviensis – T. beccarii – T. berdmorei – T. boehmei – T. brookei – T. cocincinensis – T. davaoensis – T. grayi – T. guangxiensis – T. hainanus – T. hangnam – T. iniquus – T. laotus – T. latiscutatus – T. matsuii – T. microlepis – T. micropus – T. misaminius – T. mocquardii – T. murphyi – T. noggei – T. partelloi – T. perplexus – T. robinsoni – T. sebi – T. sinicus – T. thai – T. vongx

Name

Tropidophorus Duméril & Bibron, 1839: 554

• Type species: Tropidophorus cocincinensis Duméril & Bibron, 1839, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Norbea Gray, 1845: 72
  • Type species: Norbea brookei Gray, 1845, by monotypy.
• Aspris Blyth, 1853: 650
  • Type species: Aspris berdmorei Blyth, 1853, by monotypy.
• Amphixestus Peters, 1871: 573 [as subgenus]
  • Type species: Tropidophorus (Amphixestus) beccarii Peters, 1871, by monotypy.
• Enoplosaurus Sauvage, 1879: 211
  • Type species: Enoplosaurus insignis Sauvage, 1879, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Duméril, A.M.C. & Bibron, G. 1839. Erpétologie Générale on Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Tome cinquième. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret: Paris. VIII + 854 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees of die British Museum/Edward Newman: London. xxvii + 289 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Blyth, E. 1853. Notices and descriptions of various reptiles, new or little-known. Part I. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 22: 639–655. BHL
• Peters, W. 1871. Über neue Reptilien aus Ostafrika und Sarawak (Borneo), vorzüglich aus der Sammlung des Hrn. Marquis J. Doria zu Genua. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1871: 566–581. BHL
• Sauvage, H.E. 1879. Sur un Chalcidien de genre nouveau, voisin du Tribolonote. Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7) 3: 210–212. BHL

Additional references

• Hikida, T., Orlov, N.L., Nabhitabhata, J. & Ota, H. 2002. Three New Depressed-bodied Water Skinks of the Genus Tropidophorus (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from Thailand and Vietnam. Current Herpetology 21(1): 9–23. DOI: 10.5358/hsj.21.9 Reference page. 
• Hikida, T., Riyanto, A. & Ota, H. 2003. A new water skink of the genus Tropidophorus (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Current Herpetology 22(1): 29–36. DOI: 10.5358/hsj.22.29 Reference page. 
• Greer, A.E. & Biswas, S. 2004. A generic diagnosis for the southeast Asian scincid lizard genus Tropidophorus Duméril and Bibron, 1839 with some additional comments on its morphology and distribution. Journal of Herpetology 38(3): 426–430. DOI: 10.1670/203-03N Reference page. 
• Chuaynkern, Y., Nabhitabhata, J., Inthara, C., Kamsook, M. & Somsri, K. 2005. A New Species of the Water Skink Tropidophorus (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from Northeast Thailand. The Thailand Natural History Museum Journal 1(2): 165–176. PDF Reference page. 
• Ziegler, T., Vu, N.T. & Bui, N.T. 2005. A new water skink of the genus Tropidophorus from the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, central Vietnam (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae). Salamandra 41(3): 137–146. PDF Reference page. 
• Honda, M., Ota, H., Murphy, R.W. & Hikida, T. 2006. Phylogeny and biogeography of water skinks of the genus Tropidophorus (Reptilia: Scincidae): a molecular approach. Zoologica Scripta 35(1): 85–95. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00215.x Reference page. 
• Nguyen, T.Q., Nguyen, T.T., Schmitz, A., Orlov, N.L. & Ziegler, T. 2010. A new species of the genus Tropidophorus Duméril & Bibron, 1839 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) from Vietnam. Zootaxa 2439(1): 53–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2439.1.4 Reference page. 
• Pyron, R.A., Burbrink, F.T. & Wiens, J.J. 2013. A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13(93): 1–53. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-93 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Pui, Y.M., Karin, B.R., Bauer, A.M. & Das, I. 2017. A new species of Tropidophorus Duméril & Bibron, 1839 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) from Sarawak, East Malaysia (Borneo). Zootaxa 4258(6): 539–550. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4258.6.3 Reference page. 
• Wang, K., Li, L., Mu, H.-N., Xu, S.-J. & Che, J. 2024. A New Species of the Genus Tropidophorus Duméril, Bibron, 1839 (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from China-Vietnam Border Region in Southeastern Yunnan Province, China. Zootaxa 5486(1): 129–141. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5486.1.6 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Tropidophorus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 20 August 2020.

Vernacular names

English: Water Skinks

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