Eutropis gansi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincomorpha
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata 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 Cladus: 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 Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Infraordo: Scincomorpha

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Mabuyinae
Genus: Eutropis
Species: Eutropis gansi

Eutropis gansi (Das, 1991)

Holotype: ZSI 24826, adult ♀, collected by Indraneil Das on 30 August 1990.
Type locality: “circa 2 km NW of Muthalar Road Cross off Sengaltheri-Thalayanai road (towards Moolakasam), Kalakkad Tiger Reserve, Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu State, India”.
Synonymised with Eutropis dawsoni (Annandale, 1909), by Ganesh, Deuti, Achyuthan, Campbell, Raha, Bag & Debnath (2021: 365).

Mabuya gansi Das, 1991: 342 [original combination]
Eutropis gansi — Mausfeld, Schmitz, Böhme, Misof, Vrcibradic & Rocha, 2002 [subsequent combination]

Das, I. 1991. A new species of Mabuya from Tamil Nadu State, Southern India (Squamata: Scincidae). Journal of Herpetology 25(3): 342–344. DOI: 10.2307/1564594
Mausfeld, P., Schmitz, A., Böhme, W., Misof, B., Vrcibradic, D. & Rocha, C.F.D. 2002. Phylogenetic Affinities of Mabuya atlantica Schmidt, 1945, Endemic to the Atlantic Ocean Archipelago of Fernando de Noronha (Brazil): Necessity of Partitioning the Genus Mabuya Fitzinger, 1826 (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 241(3): 281–293. DOI: 10.1078/0044-5231-00081 Reference page.
Ganesh, S.R., Deuti, K., Achyuthan, N.S., Campbell, P.D., Raha, S., Bag, P. & Debnath, S. 2021. Taxonomic reassessment of Eutropis macularia (Blyth, 1853) complex in the Western Ghats of India: Resurrection of Eutropis brevis (Günther, 1875), Eutropis dawsoni (Annandale, 1909) and synonymisation of Eutropis gansi (Das, 1991) (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121(3): 363–374. DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v121/i3/2021/154296 Reference page.

Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2026. Eutropis gansi. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 3 June 2021.
Srinivasulu, C. & Srinivasulu, B. 2013. IUCN: Eutropis gansi (Data Deficient). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T172627A1354981. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T172627A1354981.en