Dravidoseps
Dravidoseps is a genus of skinks, found in Southern India. They were all previously found in the genera Subdoluseps & Riopa.[1][2]
| Dravidoseps | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Lygosominae |
| Genus: | Dravidoseps Ishan Agarwal,Tejas Thackeray & Akshay Khandekar, 2024 |
Species
The genus is made up of the following species:
- Dravidoseps gingeeensis Agarwal, Thackeray & Khandekar, 2024
- Dravidoseps goaensis (Sharma, 1976) - Goan supple skink
- Dravidoseps jawadhuensis Agarwal, Thackeray & Khandekar, 2024
- Dravidoseps kalakadensis Agarwal, Thackeray & Khandekar, 2024
- Dravidoseps nilgiriensis Ganesh, Srikanthan, Ghosh, Adhikari, Kumar & Datta-Roy, 2021 - Nilgiri gracile skink
- Dravidoseps pruthi (Sharma, 1976) - Pruthi's supple skink
- Dravidoseps srivilliputhurensis Agarwal, Thackeray & Khandekar, 2024
- Dravidoseps tamilnaduensis Agarwal, Thackeray & Khandekar, 2024
References
- Agarwal, Ishan; Thackeray, Tejas; Khandekar, Akshay (2024). "A non-adaptive radiation of viviparous skinks from the seasonal tropics of India: Systematics of Subdoluseps (Squamata: Scincidae), with description of a new genus and five cryptic new species". Vertebrate Zoology. 74: 23–83. doi:10.3897/vz.74.e110674.
- "Researches discover 5 new species of reptiles that give birth to their young ones".
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