Dasia (lizard)

Dasia is a genus of lizards, commonly known as tree skinks or dasias, in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to Asia.^[1]^[2]

Species

The genus Dasia contains ten species which are recognized as being valid.^[3]

Dasia griffini Taylor, 1915 – Griffin's dasia
Dasia grisea (Gray, 1845) – big tree skink, grey dasia, grey tree skink
Dasia haliana (Haly & Nevill, 1887) – Ceylonese dasia
Dasia johnsinghi Harikrishnan et al., 2012 – barred tree skink
Dasia nicobarensis Biswas & Sanyal, 1977 – Nicobar dasia, Nicobar tree skink
Dasia olivacea Gray, 1839 – olive dasia, olive tree skink
Dasia semicincta (W. Peters, 1867) – Peters' dasia
Dasia subcaerulea (Boulenger, 1891) – Boulenger's dasia, Boulenger's tree skink
Dasia vittata (Edeling, 1865) – Borneo skink, striped tree skink
Dasia vyneri (Shelford, 1905) – Shelford's skink

^ Wrobel, Murray (2004). Elsevier's Dictionary of Reptiles: in Latin, English, German, French and Italian. Amsterdam: Elsevier. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-444-51499-8.
^ Inger, Robert F.; Brown, Walter C. [in French] (1980). "Species of the Scincid Genus Dasia Gray". Fieldiana Zoology. New Series (3). Field Museum of Natural History: 1–11. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.3190. ISSN 0015-0754.
^ "Dasia ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Gray JE (1839). "Catalogue of the Slender-tongued Saurians, with Descriptions of many new Genera and Species". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [First Series] 2: 331-337. (Dasia, new genus, p. 331; D. olivacea, new species, p. 331).
Harikrishnan S, Vasudevan K, De Silva A, Deepak V, Kar NB, Naniwadekar R, Lalremruata A, Prasoona LR, Aggarwal RK (2012). "Phylogeography of Dasia Gray, 1830 (Reptilia: Scincidae), with the description of a new species from southern India". Zootaxa 3233: 37-51. Preview. (Dasia johnsinghi, new species).