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    Species Accepted

    Lankascincus taprobanensis (Kelaart, 1854)

    Ceylon Tree Skink

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      9 results
      Ceylon Tree Skink English
      Munindradasage lakhekanala Sinhalese
      Munindradasage lakhekanala [munindradasai] Sinhalese
      Munindradasavin arene Tamil
      Munindradasavin arene [munindradasai] Tamil
      Munindradasa’s Lanka skink English
      Munindradasa’s Lanka skink [munindradasai] English
      Smooth Lanka Skink English
      Sumudu Lakhiraluva Sinhalese

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      27 results
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      Batuwita, & Sudesh. (2019). A REVIEW OF THE LIZARDS OF THE ENDEMIC GENUS LANKASCINCUS (REPTILIA: SCINCIDAE: LYGOSOMINAE) FROM SRI LANKA. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 162(3), (8 April 2019).
      Deraniyagala, P. E. P. (1931). Some Ceylon Lizards. Ceylon J. Sci. B, 16: 139-180.
      Greer A E. (1991). Lankascincus, a new genus of scincid lizards from Sri Lanka, with descriptions of three new species. Journal of Herpetology 25 (1): 59-64.
      http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/search.php?genus=Lankascincus&species=munindradasai&submit=Search
      Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano de C. Nogueira, Paul Oliver, Olivier S. G. Pauwels, Daniel Pincheira-Donoso, Glenn Shea, Roberto Sindaco, Oliver J. S. Tallowin, Omar Torres-Carvajal, Jean-Francois Trape, Peter Uetz, Philipp Wagner, Yuezhao Wang, Thomas Ziegler, and Uri Roll. (2017). Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions 24 (2): 262-273.
      Samarawickrama, V.A.M.P.K.; H.I.G.C. Kumara, D.R.N.S. Samarawickrama. (2019). Diversity of Reptiles in the Eastern and Southern parts of the Sinharaja Rain Forest. Journal of Tropical Forestry and Environment.
      Somarathna, & Lankani. (2026). Catalogue of wet preserved Skinks specimens deposited in the Colombo National Museum, Sri Lanka. Conference Paper.
      Janzen, & Peter and Malaka Bopage. (2011). The herpetofauna of a small and unprotected patch of tropical rainforest in Morningside, Sri Lanka. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 5 (2): 1-13.

      Citation

      Lankascincus taprobanensis (Kelaart, 1854) in undefined