Dravidoseps nilgiriensis

Taxonavigation[edit]

Taxonavigation: Scincoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Scincomorpha Superfamilia: Scincoidea

Dravidoseps nilgiriensis (Ganesh, Srikanthan, Ghosh, Adhikari, Kumar & Datta-Roy, 2021)

Holotype: BNHS 2642, collected by A. Ghosh, S.R. Ganesh & N.S. Achyuthan in September 2019.
Type locality: “private land (11.110°N, 76.769°E 600 m asl) Anaikatti hills, Coimbatore, Western Ghats, peninsular India”.

Subdoluseps nilgiriensis Ganesh, Srikanthan, Ghosh, Adhikari, Kumar & Datta-Roy, 2021 [original combination]
Dravidoseps nilgiriensis — Agarwal, Thackeray & Khandekar, 2024: 51 [subsequent combination]

Ganesh, S.R., Srikanthan, A.N., Ghosh, A., Adhikari, O.D., Kumar, S.V.V. & Datta-Roy, A.. 2021. A new species of Asian gracile skink (Scincidae: Lygosominae: Subdoluseps) from the rain-shadow belts of Nilgiri hills, Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 4950(2): 361–376. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4950.2.7 Reference page.
Agarwal, I., Thackeray, T. & Khandekar, A. 2024. A non-adaptive radiation of viviparous skinks from the seasonal tropics of India: Systematics of Subdoluseps (Squamata: Scincidae), with description of a new genus and five cryptic new species. Vertebrate Zoology 74: 23–83. DOI: 10.3897/vz.74.e110674 Reference page.

English: Nilgiri Leaf-litter Skink