Two-lined ground skink

Two-lined ground skink
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Scincidae
Genus:Kaestlea
Species: K. bilineata
Binomial name
Kaestlea bilineata
(Gray, 1846)
Synonyms
  • Mocoa bilineata
  • Eumeces bilineatus
  • Lygosoma bilineatum
  • Leiolopisma bilineatum
  • Scincella bilineata
  • Scincella bilineatum

The two-lined ground skink (Kaestlea bilineata) is a species of skink. Distribution: India (Nilgiri Hills, Travancore Hills)

References

  1. ↑ Srinivasulu, C. & Srinivasulu, B. 2013. Kaestlea bilineata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T172610A1351782. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T172610A1351782.en. Downloaded on 09 September 2018.
  • Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
  • Eremchenko, V. K & I. Das 2004 Kaestlea: a new genus of scincid lizards (ScincidaLygosominae) from the Western Ghats, south-western India. Hamadryad 28 (1&2): 43-50
  • Gray, J. E. 1846 Descriptions of some new species of Indian Lizards. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (1)18: 429-430
  • Ouboter, P.E. 1986 A revision of the genus Scincella (Reptilia: Sauria: Scincidae) of Asia, with some notes on its evolution. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) (No. 229) 1986: 1-66 PDF


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