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Spotted Eastern Ghats skink

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Spotted Eastern Ghats skink
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Sepsophis
Beddome, 1870
Species:
S. punctatus
Binomial name
Sepsophis punctatus

The spotted Eastern Ghats skink (Sepsophis punctatus) is a species of skink. It endemic to India and known from its type locality in Andhra Pradesh (Darakondah, Golconda Hills, then Madras Presidency) and from Odissa.[2] It is monotypic in the genus Sepsophis.

References

  1. ^ Beddome, R. H. (1870). "Descriptions of new reptiles from the Madras Presidency". Madras Monthly Journal of Medical Science. 2: 169–176. (Reprint.: J. Soc. Bibliogr. Nat. Sci., London, 1 (10): 327-334, 1940)
  2. ^ Sepsophis punctatus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 10 September 2018.