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    Species Accepted

    Scincella formosensis (Van Denburgh, 1912)

    Van Denburgh's Ground Skink
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Scincella
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Taiwansk Jordskink Danish
      Van Denburgh's Ground Skink English
      Формозская сцинцелла Russian
      タイワンスベトカゲ Japanese
      台湾滑蜥 Chinese
      台灣滑蜥 Chinese
      臺灣滑蜥 Chinese

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      11 results
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      Barbour, T. (1917). A most regretable tangle of names. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (44): 1-9.
      Van Denburgh, J. (1912). Advance diagnoses of new reptiles and amphibians from the Loo Choo Islands and Formosa. Privately Published by Author, San Francisco. 8 Pages.
      Chen, Szu-Lung, & Hidetoshi Ota and Tsutomu Hikida. (2001). Geographic Variation in the Two Smooth Skinks, Scincella boettgeri and S. formosensis (Squamata: Scincidae), in the Subtropical East Asian Islands. Zoological Science 18 (1): 115-130.
      Huang, S. P., Hung, K. W., Fan, H. C., Lin, T. E. and Richard, R. (2020). Temperature rise curtails activity period predicted for a winter-active forest lizard, Scincella formosensis, from subtropical areas in Taiwan. Journal of Thermal Biology 87: 102475.
      Liu-Yu, M. C. (1970). Studies on Taiwan lizards. Biol. Bull. Taiwan Normal Univ. 5: 51-93.
      Koizumi, Y., & Hidetoshi Ota, a. T. H. (2014). Phylogeography of the Two Smooth Skinks, Scincella boettgeri and S. formosensis (Squamata: Scincidae) in the Southern Ryukyus and Taiwan, as Inferred from Variation in Mitochondrial Cytochrome b Sequences. Zoological Science 31, No. 4: 228-236.
      Slevin, Joseph R.;Leviton, Alan E. (1956). Holotype specimens of reptiles and amphibians in the collection of the California Academy of Sciences. [type catalogue]. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 28 (14): 529-560.
      Thompson, J. C. (1912). Herpetological notices, No. 3. On reptiles new to the island arcs of Asia. Privately Published, San Francisco, Pp. 1-4.
      Linkem, Charles W.; Arvin C. Diesmos, Rafe M. Brown. (2011). Molecular systematics of the Philippine forest skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Sphenomorphus): testing morphological hypotheses of interspecific relationships. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 1217–1243.

      Citation

      Scincella formosensis (Van Denburgh, 1912) in undefined