Lygosoma albopunctatum (Gray, 1846)

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 284-285

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:78E23714-8973-4755-BC94-0A751D7D2B37

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7968366

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/88502B73-FE81-B96A-FF6B-41727D420FE2

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Lygosoma albopunctatum (Gray, 1846)
status

 

Lygosoma albopunctatum (Gray, 1846) — Erroneous.

White-spotted Supple Skink

Singapore records.

Eumeces punctatus View in CoL — Cantor, 1847a: 651.

Lygosoma albopunctatum — Flower, 1896: 875.—Ridley, 1899: 207.

Remarks. The only record of L. albopunctatum in Singapore comes from Cantor (1847a) who also listed Penang and Malay Peninsula as localities. However, he did not provide any specifics regarding its occurrence in these places. Lygosoma albopunctatum ranges from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, northeastern Thailand, Vietnam, and is known from two specimens taken in Penang in 1956 ( Grismer 2011b). Since there is doubt concerning some of Cantor’s records, and no specimens exist for Singapore and the rest of Peninsular Malaysia, we exclude L. albopunctatum from Singapore’s herpetofauna checklist.

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.

Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.

Genus Sphenomorphus Fitzinger, 1843 (2 species)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Scincidae

Genus

Lygosoma

Loc

Lygosoma albopunctatum (Gray, 1846)

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P. 2023
2023
Loc

Lygosoma albopunctatum

Flower, S. S. 1896: 875
1896
Loc

Eumeces punctatus

Cantor, T. E. 1847: 651
1847
GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF