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Spotted Eastern Ghats skink

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Spotted Eastern Ghats skink
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Sepsophis
Beddome, 1870
Species: S. punctatus
Binomial name
Sepsophis punctatus
Beddome, 1870

The spotted Eastern Ghats skink (Sepsophis punctatus) is a species of skink. It endemic to India and known from its type locality in Andhra Pradesh (Darakondah, Golconda Hills, then Madras Presidency) and from Odissa. It is monotypic in the genus Sepsophis.

References

  1. Beddome, R. H. (1870). "Descriptions of new reptiles from the Madras Presidency". Madras Monthly Journal of Medical Science. 2: 169–176. (Reprint.: J. Soc. Bibliogr. Nat. Sci., London, 1 (10): 327-334, 1940)
  2. Sepsophis punctatus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 10 September 2018.
Taxon identifiers
Sepsophis punctatus
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