Subdoluseps bowringii

Subdoluseps bowringii, also known commonly as Bowring's supple skink, Bowring's writhing skink, and the Christmas Island grass-skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is native to Southeast Asia.

Subdoluseps bowringii
Subdoluseps bowringii
from Petchaburi Province, Thailand
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Subdoluseps
Species:
S. bowringii
Binomial name
Subdoluseps bowringii
(Günther, 1864)
Synonyms[1]
  • Eumeces bowringii
    Günther, 1864
  • Euprepes punctatolineatus
    W. Peters, 1871
    (ex errore)
  • Euprepes punctatostriatus
    W. Peters, 1871
  • Lygosoma bowringii
    — Boulenger, 1887
  • Lygosoma comotti
    Boulenger, 1887
  • Lygosoma whiteheadi
    Mocquard, 1890
  • Riopa bowringii
    — Taylor, 1922
  • Mochlus bowringii
    — Ebenhard & Sjögren, 1984
  • Lygosoma bowringii
    — Cogger, 1994
  • Subdoluseps bowringii
    — Freitas et al., 2019

Etymology

The specific name, bowringii, is in honor of either John Charles Bowring, who was a British amateur naturalist and businessman in Hong Kong, or his father John Bowring, who was a British diplomat and a governor of Hong Kong.[2]

Geographic range
West Malaysia, Pulau Tioman, Johor
Pulau Besar, Pulau Sibu; India (Andaman Islands),
Philippines (Sulu Archipelago),
Indonesia (Borneo, Sumatra ?, Java, Sulawesi),
China (Hong Kong ), Singapore, India,
Indochina west to Myanmar (= Burma), Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia,
Australia (Cook Islands)

Type locality: Hong Kong.

References
  1. Species Subdoluseps bowringii at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  2. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Lygosoma bowringii, p. 36).

Further reading
  • Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III ... Scincidae .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I–XL. (Lygosoma bowringii, pp. 308–309 + Plate XXIII, figure 3).
  • Boulenger GA (1887). "An account of the Scincoid Lizards collected from Burma for the Genoa Civic Museum by Messrs. G.B. Comotto and L. Fea". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Series 2, 4: 618–624. (Lygosoma comotti, new species, p. 622).
  • Freitas ES, Datta-Roy A, Karanth P, Grismer LL, Siler CD (2019). "Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for African, Asian and Indian supple and writhing skinks (Scincidae: Lygosominae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 186 (4): 1067–1096. (Subdoluseps bowringii, new combination).
  • Günther A (1864). The Reptiles of British India. London: The Ray Society. (Taylor & Francis, printers). xxvii + 452 pp. + Plates I-XXVI. (Eumeces bowringii, new species, p. 91).
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