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    Species Accepted

    Lankascincus fallax (Peters, 1860)

    Common Lanka Skink
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Lankascincus
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Common Lanka Skink English
      Common Supple Skink English
      Deraniyagala's Tree Skink English
      Peters' Tree Skink English

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
      1 result
      Source Dataset

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      40 results
      Taylor, Edward H. (1950). Ceylones lizards of the family Scincidae. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 33 (2): 481-518.
      Karunarathna, Suranjan D. M. S. and A. A. Thasun Amarasinghe. (2011). A PRELIMINARY SURVEY OF THE REPTILE FAUNA IN NILGALA FOREST AND ITS VICINITY, MONARAGALA DISTRICT, SRI LANKA. Taprobanica 3 (2): 69-76.
      Uetz, P. H., Patel, M., Gbadamosi, Z., Nguyen, A., & Shoope, S. (2024). A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732.
      Günther, A. (1864). The Reptiles of British India. London (Taylor & Francis), Xxvii + 452 Pp.
      Ghosh, A., Marathe, A., Cyriac, V. P., Umesh, P. K., Kulkarni, V. M., & Datta-Roy, A. (2024). A Lankan invasion? An intriguing case of the presence of a Sri Lankan endemic skink on the southwestern Indian Coast. Systematics and Biodiversity, 22(1), 2383215.
      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).
      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.
      Jayamanna, J.M.A. Ishara K.; Anslem de Silva & Kanishka D.B. Ukuwela. (2025). Throat colour polymorphism in relation to sex and body size of the Litter skink Lankascincus fallax. Herpetological Journal 35: 1-8.
      http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/search.php?genus=Lankascincus&species=deraniyagalae&submit=Search
      Das, Indraneil, & Abhijit Das. (2017). A Naturalist’s Guide to the Reptiles of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd., Oxford, 176 Pp.

      Citation

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