Eutropis ashwamedhi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincomorpha
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Infraordo: Scincomorpha

Holotype: ZSIK 21173.

Type locality: “5 km S.W. of Pullareddygudem (south of the excavated ‘ashwamedh site’), Nagarjunakonda Valley, Guntur Dist.”, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Riopa ashwamedhi Sharma, 1969: 73 [original combination]
Lygosoma ashwamedhi — Das, 1996: 46 [subsequent combination]
Eutropis ashwamedhi — Srinivasulu, Srinivasulu, Srinivasulu & Seetharamaraju, 2016: 138 [subsequent combination]

Sharma, R.C. 1969. Two new izards of the genera Mabuya Fitzinger and Riopa Gray (Scincidae) from India. Bulletin of Systematic Zoology 1(2): 71–75. Reference page.
Srinivasulu, C., Srinivasulu, B., Srinivasulu, A. & Seetharamaraju, M. 2016. No longer supple? Molecular phylogeny suggests generic reassignment of Lygosoma ashwamedhi (Sharma, 1969) (Reptilia: Scincidae). Zootaxa 4127(1): 135–148. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4127.1.7. Reference page.

Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2026. Eutropis ashwamedhi. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 14 February 2019.
Srinivasulu, C. & Srinivasulu, B. 2018. IUCN: Eutropis ashwamedhi (Vulnerable) (amended version of 2013 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T174131A127995910. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T174131A127995910.en