Tytthoscincus

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Sphenomorphinae
Genus: Tytthoscincus
Species (23): T. aesculeticola – T. atrigularis – T. batupanggah – T. biparietalis – T. bukitensis – T. butleri – T. cophias – T. hallieri – T. ishaki – T. jaripendek – T. kakikecil – T. keciktuek – T. leproauricularis – T. martae – T. monticolus – T. panchorensis – T. parvus – T. perhentianensis – T. sibuensis – T. temasekensis – T. temengorensis – T. temmincki – T. textus

Name

• Tytthoscincus Linkem, Diesmos & Brown, 2011: 1232

Type species: Lygosoma hallieri Lidth de Jeude, 1905, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Linkem, C.W., Diesmos, A.C. & Brown, R.M. 2011. Molecular systematics of the Philippine forest skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Sphenomorphus): testing morphological hypotheses of interspecific relationships. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163(4): 1217–1243. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00747.x Reference page. 

Additional references

• Karin, B.R., Das, I. & Bauer, A.M. 2016. Two new species of diminutive leaf-litter skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Tytthoscincus) from Gunung Penrissen, Sarawak, Malaysia (northern Borneo). Zootaxa 4093(3): 407–423. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.3.7 Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L., Muin, M.A., Wood, Jr., P.L., Anuar, S. & Linkem, C.W. 2016. The transfer of two clades of Malaysian Sphenomorphus Fitzinger (Squamata: Scincidae) into the genus Tytthoscincus Linkem, Diesmos, & Brown and the description of a new Malaysian swamp-dwelling species. Zootaxa 4092(2): 231–242. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4092.2.6 Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L., Wood, Jr., P.L., Lim, K.K.P. & Liang, L.J. 2017. A New Species of Swamp-dwelling Skink (Tytthoscincus) from Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 65: 574–584. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L., Wood, Jr., P.L., Ahmad, A.B., Baizul-Hafsyam, B.S., Afiq-Suhaimi, M., Rizal, S.A. & Quah, E.S.H. 2018. Two new Tytthoscincus Linkem, Diesmos, & Brown (Squamata; Scincidae) from Peninsular Malaysia and another case of microsyntopy between ecologically specialized, unrelated, leaf-litter species. Zootaxa 4425(1): 87–107. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4425.1.5 Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L., Wood, Jr., P.L., Quah, E.S.H., Anuar, S., Ngadi, E.B., Izam, N.A.M. & Ahmad, N. 2018. Systematics, ecomorphology, cryptic speciation and biogeography of the lizard genus Tytthoscincus Linkem, Diesmos & Brown (Squamata: Scincidae) from the sky-island archipelago of Peninsular Malaysia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 183(3): 635–671. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx067 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Tytthoscincus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 30 March 2018.