Eutropis dissimilis

The striped grass mabuya (Eutropis dissimilis), also called striped grass skink, is a species of skink found in South Asia.[1]

Eutropis dissimilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Eutropis
Species:
E. dissimilis
Binomial name
Eutropis dissimilis
(Hallowell, 1857)[1]
Synonyms

Euprepis dissimilis Hallowell, 1857
Mabuya dissimilis (Hallowell, 1857)

Description

Snout moderate, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided semi-transparent disk. Nostril behind the vertical of the suture between the rostral and the first labial; no postnasal; anterior loreal in contact with the first labial; supranasals in contact behind the rostral; frontonasal broader than long; prefrontals forming a median suture; frontal in contact with the second supraocular only (exceptionally with the first as well); 4 supraoculars, second largest; 6 supraciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct, usually nearly as long as the frontal, and larger than the interparietal, which entirely separates the parietals; usually no distinct nuchals; 4, seldom 5, labials anterior to the subocular, which is about twice as long as the neighbouring shields and not narrowed below. Ear-opening oval, larger than a lateral scale, smaller than the eye-opening, with 3 or 4 short pointed lobules anteriorly. Dorsal scales strongly bicarinate, nuchals and laterals tricarinate; 34 to 36 scales round the middle of the body, subequal. The adpressed limbs overlap. Toes short; subdigital lamellae smooth. Tail about 2.6 times length of head and body. Olive or brownish above, black-spotted, and with 3 more or less distinct light longitudinal streaks, the vertebral sometimes absent; flanks white-spotted; a short horizontal white streak below the eye; lower surfaces whitish.[2] From snout to vent 3.5 inches; tail 5.5. Plains of Northern India, from Sind to Bengal, also in the "Western Himalayas (Chamba)".

Distribution

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India (northern: Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh & W Bengal), Nepal and Pakistan and possibly in Myanmar. Type locality is Bengal.[1]

Notes
  1. Eutropis dissimilis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 16 May 2014.
  2. Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Amphibia.

References
  • Blanford, W. T. 1879 Notes on a collection of reptiles made by major O.B. St. John, R.E., at Ajmere in Rajputana. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal xlviii: 119-127
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1887 Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) III. Lacertidae, Gerrhosauridae, Scincidae, Anelytropsidae, Dibamidae, Chamaeleontidae. London: 575pp.
  • Das I. 1991 A new species of Mabuya from Tamil Nadu State, Southern India (Squamata: Scincidae). Journal of Herpetology 25 (3): 342–344.
  • Fischer, J. G. 1885 Ichthyologische und herpetologische Bemerkungen. V. Herpetologische Bemerkungen. Jb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. 2: 82-121
  • Hallowell, E. 1857 Notice of some new and rare species of Scincidae in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Trans. Am. Philos. Soc., Philadelphia, 11: 71-82
  • Hora 1927 Rec. Ind. Mus. 29: 2


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