Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Bowring, Bowring's Writhing Skink, Christmas Island Grass-Skink, Christmas Island Grass-Skink, Bowring, Christmas Island Grass-Skink, Bowring’s Supple Skink
Common Names in German:
Bowrings Laubskink
Description
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 290 meters (0 to 951 feet).[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Subclass:
Diapsida
()
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
()
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
()
-
- Order:
Squamata
()
- Suborder:
Lacertilia
()
- Infraorder:
Scincomorpha
()
- Family:
Scincidae
()
- Subfamily:
Lygosominae
()
- Genus:
Lygosoma
()
- Hardwicke & Gray, 1827
- Specific name:
bowringii
- GÜNTHER 1864
- Scientific name: - Lygosoma bowringii GÜNTHER 1864
- Specific name:
bowringii
- GÜNTHER 1864
- Genus:
Lygosoma
(
- Subfamily:
Lygosominae
(
- Family:
Scincidae
(
- Infraorder:
Scincomorpha
(
- Suborder:
Lacertilia
(
- Order:
Squamata
(
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
(
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
(
- Subclass:
Diapsida
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Eumeces bowringii GÜnther 1864: 91 • Euprepes punctatolineatus PETERS 1871: 30< /i> (In Error) • Euprepes punctatostriatus Peters 1871: 31 • Euprepes< /i> (Riopa) Punctatolineatus Peters 1871: 30 (In Error) • Euprepes< /i> (Riopa) Punctatostriatus Peters 1871: 31 • Lygosoma bowringii - Cogger 1994 • Lygosoma bowringii — Boulenger 1887: 308 • Lygosoma bowringii — Cogger 2000: 730 • Lygosoma bowringii — Grossmann & Tillack 2004 • Lygosoma bowringii — Wood Et Al. 2004 • Lygosoma bowringii< /i> (Riopa Bowringii) — Cox Et Al. 1998: 114 • Lygosoma comotti BOULENGER 1887: 622< /i> (Fide Smith 1935) • Lygosoma whiteheadi Mocquard 1890 • Mochlus bowringi Ebenhard & SjÖgren 1984: 24 • Riopa bowringi Smith 1935: 315 • Riopa bowringi — Dunn 1927 • Riopa bowringi — Hien Et Al. 2001 • Riopa bowringi — Pauwels Et Al. 2000 • Riopa bowringi — Pauwels Et Al. 2003 • Riopa bowringi — Taylor 1963: 977 • Riopa bowringii Manthey & Grossmann 1997: 274 • Riopa bowringii — Chan-Ard Et Al. 1999: 142 • Riopa bowringii — Malkmus Et Al. 2002: 281
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: The original description
is available online (see link below).
SVL
Similar Species
Members of the genus Lygosoma
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 28 species and subspecies in this genus:
L. afrum (Peters' Eyelid Skink) · L. albopunctata (White-Spotted Supple Skink) · L. angeli (Angel's Writhing Skink) · L. bowringii (Christmas Island Grass-Skink) · L. frontoparietale (Pygmy Supple Skink) · L. grandisonianum (Lanza's Writhing Skink) · L. haroldyoungi (Banded Supple Skink) · L. isodactylum (Siamese Writhing Skink) · L. koratense (Korat Supple Skink) · L. laeviceps (Common Writhing Skink) · L. lanceolatum (Broadley's Writhing Skink) · L. lineolatum (Striped Writhing Skink) · L. mabuiiforme (Mabuya-Like Skink) · L. mafianum (Mafia Writhing Skink) · L. mocquardi (Mocquard's Writhing Skink) · L. paedocarinatum (Abyssinian Writhing Skink) · L. pembanum (Pemba Island Writhing Skink) · L. popae (Pope's Writhing Skink) · L. productum (Boulenger's Writhing Skink) · L. punctata (Common Snake Skink) · L. quadrupes (Short-Limbed Supple Skink) · L. simonettai (Simonetta's Writhing Skink) · L. singha (Sri Lankan Supple Skink) · L. somalicum (Somali Writhing Skink) · L. tanae (Loveridge's Writhing Skink) · L. tersum (Nakhon Si-Thammarat Forest Skink) · L. vinciguerrae (Vinciguerra's Writhing Skink) · L. vosmaeri (Vosmer's Writhing Skink)
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Further Reading
- A collection of amphibians and reptiles from the Cardamom Mountains, southwestern Cambodia / Bryan L. Stuart [and] David A. Emmett. 109 2006 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, c2006. url fig. 6 , p. 1, p. 15.
- A vertebrate fauna of the Malay Peninsula from the Isthmus of Kra to Singapore including the adjacent islands. by George A. Boulenger; edited by H.C. Robinson. London: Taylor and Francis, 1912. url p. 92.
- Catalogue of the lizards in the British museum (Natural history) / London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1885-87. url .
- Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: Academic Press, [etc.], 1833-1965. url p. 199, p. 650, p. 875, p. 875.
- The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Bombay: The Society, url p. 698.
- The Philippine journal of science. Manila: Bureau of Science url p. 251, p. 388.
- The journal of the Natural History Society of Siam. [London: Luzac, 1914]-1924. url p. 243.
- The palatal dentition in squamate reptiles: morphology, development, attachment, and replacement / D. Luke Mahler, Maureen Kearney. 108 2006 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, c2006. url p. 30.
- The reptiles of the Indo-Australian archipelago. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1915-17. url p. 264.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- TIGR Reptile Database . Release date: October 2, 2007
- Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:
- California Academy of Sciences: CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
- National Chemical Laboratory: IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
- Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research: Herp Collection
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2546767
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-6367
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 836029
Footnotes
- Mean = 165.620 meters (543.373 feet), Standard Deviation = 100.570 based on 16 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
