Lygosoma
Lygosoma is a genus of lizards, commonly known as supple skinks or writhing skinks, which are members of the family Scincidae. Lygosoma is the type genus of the subfamily Lygosominae.
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| Lygosoma quadrupes | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Lygosominae |
| Genus: | Lygosoma Hardwicke & Gray, 1828[1] |
| Type species | |
| Anguis quadrupes Linnaeus, 1766 | |
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Behavior
The common name, writhing skinks, refers to the way these stubby-legged animals move, snake-like but slower and more awkwardly.
Taxonomy
In the late 19th and early 20th century, Lygosoma was used as a "wastebin taxon", to which almost every newly described skink was assigned.[2]
Species
The following species are recognized.[3][4]
- Lygosoma albopunctatum (Gray, 1846) – white-spotted supple skink
- Lygosoma angeli (M.A. Smith, 1937) – Angel's writhing skink
- Lygosoma anguinum (Theobald, 1868)
- Lygosoma bampfyldei Bartlett, 1895 – Bampfylde's supple skink
- Lygosoma boehmei Ziegler et al., 2007
- Lygosoma bowringii (Günther, 1864) – Bowring's supple skink, Bowring's writhing skink, Christmas Island grass-skink
- Lygosoma corpulentum M.A. Smith, 1921 – fat skink
- Lygosoma frontoparietale (Taylor, 1962) – Taylor's writhing skink, pygmy supple skink
- Lygosoma goaensis (Sharma, 1976)
- Lygosoma guentheri (W. Peters, 1879) – Günther's supple skink, Günther's writhing skink
- Lygosoma haroldyoungi (Taylor, 1962) – banded supple skink, Harold's writhing skink, Harold Young's supple skink
- Lygosoma herberti M.A. Smith, 1916 – Herbert’s supple skink
- Lygosoma isodactylum (Günther, 1864) – Siamese writhing skink, even-toed supple skink
- Lygosoma kinabatanganensis Grismer, Quah, Duzulkafly, & Yambun, 2018 – Kinabatangan supple skink
- Lygosoma koratense M.A. Smith, 1917 – Korat supple skink, Koraten writhing skink
- Lygosoma lanceolatum Broadley, 1990 – Broadley's writhing skink
- Lygosoma lineata (Gray, 1839) – lined writhing skinkz, lined supple skink
- Lygosoma lineolatum (Stoliczka, 1870) – striped writhing skink
- Lygosoma malayana Grismer, Dzukafly, Muin, Quah, Karin, Anuar, & Freitas, 2019
- Lygosoma opisthorhodum F. Werner, 1910
- Lygosoma peninsulare Grismer, Quah, Duzulkafly, & Yambun, 2018
- Lygosoma popae (Shreve, 1940) – Pope's writhing skink
- Lygosoma pruthi (Sharma, 1977) – Pruthi's skink, Pruthi's supple skink
- Lygosoma punctata (Gmelin, 1799) – common dotted garden skink, common snake skink, punctate supple skink
- Lygosoma quadrupes (Linnaeus, 1766) – short-limbed supple skink, Linnaeus's writhing skink
- Lygosoma samajaya Karin, Freitas, Shonleben, Grismer, Bauer, & Das, 2018
- Lygosoma schneideri Werner, 1900 – Sumatran supple skink
- Lygosoma siamensis Siler, Heitz, Davis, Freitas, Aowphol, Termprayoon, & Grismer, 2018 – Siamese supple skink
- Lygosoma singha (Taylor, 1950)
- Lygosoma tabonorum Heitz, Diesmos, Freitas, Ellsworth, & Grismer, 2016 – Palawan supple skink
- Lygosoma veunsaiensis Geissler, Hartmann & Neang, 2012
- Lygosoma vosmaeri (Gray 1839) – Vosmer's writhing skink
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Lygosoma.
References
- Hardwicke T, Gray JE (1828). "A Synopsis of the Species of Saurian Reptiles, collected in India by Major-General Hardwicke". The Zoological Journal 3: 213-229. (Lygosoma, new genus, p. 228).
- Shea & Michels 2008.
- "Lygosoma ". Dahms Tierleben. http://www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/scincidae/lygosominae Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine.
- "Lygosoma ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
- Shea GM, Michels JP (2008). "A replacement name for Sphenomorphus keiensis (Kopstein, 1926) from the southeastern Moluccas, Indonesia (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) with a redescription of the species". Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 82 (52): 737-747. PDF
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