Spotted Eastern Ghats skink | |
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Scientific 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
- 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)
- Sepsophis punctatus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 10 September 2018.
Taxon identifiers | |
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Sepsophis punctatus |
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