Tropidophorus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincomorpha
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia 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

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Sphenomorphinae
Genus: Tropidophorus
Species (31): T. assamensis – T. baconi – T. baviensis – T. beccarii – T. berdmorei – T. boehmei – T. brookei – T. cocincinensis – T. davaoensis – T. grayi – T. guangxiensis – T. hainanus – T. hangnam – T. iniquus – T. kouzhitongi – T. laotus – T. latiscutatus – T. matsuii – T. microlepis – T. micropus – T. misaminius – T. mocquardii – T. murphyi – T. noggei – T. partelloi – T. perplexus – T. robinsoni – T. sebi – T. sinicus – T. thai – T. vongx

Name

Tropidophorus Duméril & Bibron, 1839: 554

Type species: Tropidophorus cocincinensis Duméril & Bibron, 1839, by monotypy.

Synonyms

Norbea Gray, 1845: 72
- Type species: Norbea brookei Gray, 1845, by monotypy.
Aspris Blyth, 1853: 650
- Type species: Aspris berdmorei Blyth, 1853, by monotypy.
Amphixestus Peters, 1871: 573 [as subgenus]
- Type species: Tropidophorus (Amphixestus) beccarii Peters, 1871, by monotypy.
Enoplosaurus Sauvage, 1879: 211
- Type species: Enoplosaurus insignis Sauvage, 1879, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

Duméril, A.M.C. & Bibron, G. 1839. Erpétologie Générale on Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Tome cinquième. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret: Paris. VIII + 854 pp. BHL Reference page.
Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxvii + 289 pp. BHL Reference page.
Blyth, E. 1853. Notices and descriptions of various reptiles, new or little-known. Part I. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 22: 639–655. BHL
Peters, W. 1871. Über neue Reptilien aus Ostafrika und Sarawak (Borneo), vorzüglich aus der Sammlung des Hrn. Marquis J. Doria zu Genua. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1871: 566–581. BHL
Sauvage, H.E. 1879. Sur un Chalcidien de genre nouveau, voisin du Tribolonote. Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7) 3: 210–212. BHL

Additional references

Hikida, T., Orlov, N.L., Nabhitabhata, J. & Ota, H. 2002. Three New Depressed-bodied Water Skinks of the Genus Tropidophorus (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from Thailand and Vietnam. Current Herpetology 21(1): 9–23. DOI: 10.5358/hsj.21.9 Reference page.
Hikida, T., Riyanto, A. & Ota, H. 2003. A new water skink of the genus Tropidophorus (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Current Herpetology 22(1): 29–36. DOI: 10.5358/hsj.22.29 Reference page.
Greer, A.E. & Biswas, S. 2004. A generic diagnosis for the southeast Asian scincid lizard genus Tropidophorus Duméril and Bibron, 1839 with some additional comments on its morphology and distribution. Journal of Herpetology 38(3): 426–430. DOI: 10.1670/203-03N Reference page.
Chuaynkern, Y., Nabhitabhata, J., Inthara, C., Kamsook, M. & Somsri, K. 2005. A New Species of the Water Skink Tropidophorus (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from Northeast Thailand. The Thailand Natural History Museum Journal 1(2): 165–176. PDF Reference page.
Ziegler, T., Vu, N.T. & Bui, N.T. 2005. A new water skink of the genus Tropidophorus from the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, central Vietnam (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae). Salamandra 41(3): 137–146. PDF Reference page.
Honda, M., Ota, H., Murphy, R.W. & Hikida, T. 2006. Phylogeny and biogeography of water skinks of the genus Tropidophorus (Reptilia: Scincidae): a molecular approach. Zoologica Scripta 35(1): 85–95. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00215.x Reference page.
Nguyen, T.Q., Nguyen, T.T., Schmitz, A., Orlov, N.L. & Ziegler, T. 2010. A new species of the genus Tropidophorus Duméril & Bibron, 1839 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) from Vietnam. Zootaxa 2439(1): 53–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2439.1.4 Reference page.
Pyron, R.A., Burbrink, F.T. & Wiens, J.J. 2013. A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13(93): 1–53. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-93 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Pui, Y.M., Karin, B.R., Bauer, A.M. & Das, I. 2017. A new species of Tropidophorus Duméril & Bibron, 1839 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) from Sarawak, East Malaysia (Borneo). Zootaxa 4258(6): 539–550. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4258.6.3 Reference page.
Wang, K., Li, L., Mu, H.-N., Xu, S.-J. & Che, J. 2024. A New Species of the Genus Tropidophorus Duméril, Bibron, 1839 (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from China-Vietnam Border Region in Southeastern Yunnan Province, China. Zootaxa 5486(1): 129–141. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5486.1.6 Reference page.
Wang, K., Li, L., Deepak, V., Phimmachak, S., Grosjean, S., Vidal, N., Fu, Z.-X., Wang, F.-F., Shen, G.-J., Stuart, B.L. & Che, J. 2025. Designation of the lectotype for Tropidophorus laotus (Reptilia: Scincidae) and description of a new closely related species from Southern Yunnan Province, China. Asian Herpetological Research 16(1): 95–109. DOI: 10.3724/ahr.2095-0357.2024.0057 Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2026. Tropidophorus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 9 April 2025.

Vernacular names

English: Water Skinks