Beautiful mabuya of four-lined mabuya (''Eutropis quadricarinata'') is a species of

skink Skinks are a type of lizard belonging to the family (biology), family Scincidae, a family in the Taxonomic rank, infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different taxonomic genera, the family Scincidae is one o ...

. It was previously assigned to the genus ''

Mabuya ''Mabuya'' is a genus of long-tailed skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae. The genus is restricted to species from various Caribbean islands. Out of 26 recognized species, six species are only found in Caribbean islands. Species in the genus ...

'', but following splitting up of this genus, the beautiful mabuya was assigned to the genus ''

Eutropis ''Eutropis'' is a genus of skinks belonging to the subfamily Mabuyinae. For long, this genus was included in the " wastebin taxon" '' Mabuya''; it contains the Asian mabuyas. They often share their habitat with the related common skinks (''Sph ...

''. Distribution: India, Myanmar Type locality: Bhamo and hills to the east

References

* Boulenger,G.E. 1887 An account of the Scincoid lizards collected from Burma for the Genoa Civic Museum by Messrs. G.B. Comotto and L. Fea. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) 4: 618-624 Eutropis Reptiles described in 1887 Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger {{skink-stub