Dasia (lizard)
genus of reptiles
Dasia is a genus of lizards, commonly known as tree skinks or dasias, in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to Asia.
Species
The genus Dasia contains ten species which are recognized as being valid.
Dasia griffini Taylor, 1915 – Griffin's dasia
Dasia grisea (Gray, 1845) – big tree skink, grey dasia, grey tree skink
Dasia haliana (Nevill in Haly & Nevill, 1887) – Ceylonese dasia
Dasia johnsinghi Harikrishnan et al., 2012 – barred tree skink
Dasia nicobarensis Biswas & Sanyal, 1977 – Nicobar dasia, Nicobar tree skink
Dasia olivacea Gray, 1839 – olive dasia, olive tree skink
Dasia semicincta (W. Peters, 1867) – Peters's dasia
Dasia subcaerulea (Boulenger, 1891) – Boulenger's dasia, Boulenger's tree skink
Dasia vittata (Edeling, 1865) – Borneo skink, striped tree skink
Dasia vyneri (Shelford, 1905) – Shelford's skink
References
Further reading
Gray JE (1839). "Catalogue of the Slender-tongued Saurians, with Descriptions of many new Genera and Species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, [First Series] 2: 331–337. (Dasia, new genus, p. 331; D. olivacea, new species, p. 331).
Harikrishnan S, Vasudevan K, De Silva A, Deepak V, Kar NB, Naniwadekar R, Lalremruata A, Prasoona LR, Aggarwal RK (2012).
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