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    Species Accepted

    Sepsophis punctatus Beddome, 1870

    Spotted Eastern Ghats skink
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Sepsophis
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Spotted Eastern Ghats skink English
      Spotted Limbless Skink English
      Крапчатый сепсофис Russian

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Beddome, R. H. (1870) Descriptions of new reptiles from the Madras Presidency. Madras Monthly Journal of Medical Science, 2, 169 - 176. Published in
      Venugopal, P. D. (2010). An updated and annotated list of Indian lizards (Reptilia: Sauria) based on a review of distribution records and checklists of Indian reptiles. Journal of Threatened Taxa 2 (3): 725-738.
      Venu, G., Balakrishna, G. N., Chandrasekhara, V., Mallikarjuna, N. A., Seetharama, H. G., Raju, N. G., ... & Ganesh, S. R. (2024). On further specimens of the Spotted Eastern Ghats Skink Sepsophis punctatus Beddome, 1870 (Squamata: Scincidae) from Ananthagiri hills, Northern Eastern Ghats, India. Zootaxa 5424(3), 396-400.
      Boulenger, George A. (1890). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, Xviii, 541 Pp.
      Aengals, R.; V.M. Sathish Kumar & Muhamed Jafer Palot. (2013). Updated Checklist of Indian Reptiles. Privately Published, 24 Pp.
      Boulenger, G. A. (1887). Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) III. Lacertidae, Gerrhosauridae, Scincidae, Anelytropsidae, Dibamidae, Chamaeleontidae. London: 575 Pp.
      Smith, M. A. (1935). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Reptiles and Amphibia, Vol. II. Sauria. Taylor and Francis, London, 440 Pp.
      Langner, & Christian. (2022). „Die Rache der Ameisen“ – Ein selten dokumentiertes Beispiel für die Umkehr des Beutegreifer-Opfer-Verhältnisses bei einer überwiegend myrmecophagen Reptilienart. [“The revenge of the ants” – A rarely documented example of predator/prey reversal in a predominantly myrmecophagous reptile species]. Sauria 44 (4): 49-52.
      Datta‐Roy, A., Brandley, M., Austin, C., Bauer, A., Harris, D., Carranza, S., ... & Sil, M. (2024). The Contemporary Distribution of Scincine Lizards Does Not Reflect Their Biogeographic Origin. Journal of Biogeography 52: 767-779 (Print 2025).
      Dutta, S.K., M.V. Nair, P.P. Mohapatra and A.K. Mahapatra. (2009). Amphibians and reptiles of Similipal Biosphere Reserve. Regional Plant Resouce Centre, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India.

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