Chinese water skink
Tropidophorus sinicus
Oskar Boettger, 1886
Site notes
A specimen found in Nan province along the border to Laos by Suppalert Panpoompo. Photo posted to Thai Herpetography group on Facebook and confirmed by several herpers.
Scientific classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Subphylum
- Vertebrata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Suborder
- Lacertilia
- Family
- Scincidae
- Genus
- Tropidophorus
- Species
- Tropidophorus sinicus
Synonyms
- Tropidophorus sinicus, Masanoa Honda et al. (2006)
- Tropidophorus sinicus, Vladimir V. Bobrov (1995)
- Tropidophorus sinicus, Malcolm Arthur Smith (1935)
- Tropidophorus sinicus, Oskar Boettger (1886)
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