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    Species Accepted

    Tropidophorus sinicus Boettger, 1886

    Chinese water skink
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Tropidophorus
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      7 results
      Chinese water skink English
      Chinesischer Wasserskink German
      Südchinesischer Wasserskink German
      Китайский тропидофорус Russian
      シナミズトカゲ Japanese
      中国棱蜥 Chinese
      稜蜥 Chinese

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      13 results
      Bourret, R. (1937). Notes herpétologiques sur l’indochine française. XV. Lézards et serpents reçu au laboratoire des Sciences Naturelles de l’Université au cours de l’année 1937. Descriptions de deux espèces et de deux variétés nouvelles. Bulletin Générale de l’Instruction Publique 5. Gouvernement Généneral de l’Indochine, Pp. 57-82.
      Bobrov, V. V., & Semenov, D. V. (2008). Lizards of Vietnam [in Russian]. Moscow, 236 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.
      Honda, Masanao; Ota, Hidetoshi; Murphy, Robert W.; and Hikida, Tsutomu. (2006). Phylogeny and biogeography of water skinks of the genus Tropidophorus (Reptilia: Scincidae) a molecular approach. Zoologica Scripta 35 (1):85-95.
      Wang, Kai; Jinlong Ren, Hongman Chen, Zhitong Lyu, Xianguang Guo Ke Jiang, Jinmin Chen, Jiatang Li, Peng Guo, Yingyong Wang, Jing Che. (2020). The updated checklists of amphibians and reptiles of China. Biodiversity Science 28 (2): 189-218.
      Boettger, O. (1886). Diagnoses reptilium novorum ab ill. viris O. Herz et Consule Dr. O. Fr. de Moellendorff in Sina meridionali repertorum. Zool. Anz. 9: 519-520.
      Arth, S. (2011). Erste Erfahrungen bei der Haltung und Nachzucht des Chinesischen Wasserskinks (Tropidophorus sinicus). Terraria (31) 6 (5): 70-75.
      Luong AM, Phan TQ, Nguyen TQ, Tran TT, Ngo HTT, van Schingen-Khan M, Ziegler T, & Pham CT. (2025). New records and an updated checklist of the herpetofauna from Tay Yen Tu Nature Reserve, north-eastern Vietnam. Biodiversity Data Journal 13: E157862.
      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.
      Nguyen, Quang Truong; Nguyen Van Sang, Nikolai Orlov, Hoang Ngoc Thao, Wolfgang Böhme and Thomas Ziegler. (2010). A review of the genus Tropidophorus (Squamata, Scincidae) from Vietnam with new species records and additional data on natural history. Zoosyst. Evol . 86 (1): 5 – 19.

      Citation

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