Eutropis ashwamedhi

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

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. & Hallermann, J. 2024. 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

English: Ashwamedha Writhing Skink