Banded supple skink
| Banded supple skink | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Sauria |
| Infraorder: | Scincomorpha |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Lygosominae |
| Genus: | Lygosoma |
| Species: | L. haroldyoungi |
| Binomial name | |
| Lygosoma haroldyoungi (Taylor, 1962) | |
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| Geographic range of Lygosoma haroldyoungi in Southeast Asia. | |
| Synonyms | |
The banded supple skink or Harold's writhing skink or Harold Young's supple skink[2] (Lygosoma haroldyoungi ) is a species of skink in the family Scincidae.[3] The species is endemic to Southeast Asia.
Etymology
The specific name, haroldyoungi, is in honor of American missionary Harold Young, who worked in Burma (now Myanmar) and Thailand.[2]
Geographic range
L. haroldyoungi is distributed in northern, central, and eastern Thailand and neighbouring Laos (Moravec and Böhme 2008). In Thailand it has been found in the provinces of Chachoengsao, Chaiyaphum, Chanthaburi, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Nong Khai, Phetchabun, Phitsanulok, Nakhon Ratchasima, and Loei.[3] In Laos it occurs in Vientiane Province, and it is also found in Myanmar.[1]
Habitat
L. haroldyoungi is found in tropical deciduous forest and cultivated areas.[3]
Conservation status
L. haroldyoungi is threatened by habitat loss but this is not a significant threat as it survives in agricultural areas.[3]
References
- 1 2 "Lygosoma haroldyoungi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- 1 2 Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Lygosoma haroldyoungi, pp. 116-117).
- 1 2 3 4 World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Lygosoma haroldyoungi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Downloaded on 20 July 2007.
Further reading
- Geissler P, Hartmann T, Neang T. 2012. A new species of the genus Lygosoma Hardwicke & Gray, 1827 (Squamata: Scincidae) from northeastern Cambodia, with an updated identification key to the genus Lygosoma in mainland Southeast Asia. Zootaxa 3190: 56-68.
- Moravec J, Böhme W. 2008. First record of Riopa haroldyoungi from Laos. Herpetological Notes 1: 9-10.
- Taylor EH. 1962. New Oriental Reptiles. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 43 (7): 209-263. (Riopa haroldyoungi, new species, pp. 242–244, Figure 12).