Tytthoscincus butleri
Appearance
Tytthoscincus butleri | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Scincidae |
Genus: | Tytthoscincus |
Species: | T. butleri
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Binomial name | |
Tytthoscincus butleri (Boulenger, 1912)
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Tytthoscincus butleri, also known commonly as Butler's forest skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is native to Malaysia and Thailand.[2]
Etymology
[edit]The specific name, butleri, is in honor of British zoologist Arthur Lennox Butler.[3]
Habitat
[edit]The preferred natural habitat of T. butleri is forest.[1]
Reproduction
[edit]T. butleri is oviparous. The eggs hatch in September.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Grismer, L. [in French]; Quah, E. (2018). "Tytthoscincus butleri ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T102349507A102349532. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T102349507A102349532.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ a b Tytthoscincus butleri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 13 October 2020.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Sphenomorphus butleri, p. 44).
Further reading
[edit]- Boulenger GA (1912). A Vertebrate Fauna of the Malay Peninsula from the Isthmus of Kra to Singapore including the Adjacent Islands. Reptilia and Batrachia. London, Kuala Lampur, and Singapore: Government of the Federated Malay States. (Taylor & Francis, printers). xiii + 294 pp. (Lygosoma butleri, new species, p. 91).
- Grismer LL, Muin MA, Wood PL Jr, Anuar S, Linkem CW (2016). "The transfer of two clades of Malaysian Sphenomorphus Fitzinger (Squamata: Scincidae) into the genus Tytthoscincus Linkem, Diesmos, & Brown and the description of a new Malaysian swamp-dwelling species". Zootaxa 4092 (2): 231–242. (Tytthoscincus butleri, new combination).