The short-limbed supple skink or Linnaeus's writhing skink (''Lygosoma quadrupes'') is a species of

skink Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae, a family in the infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different taxonomic genera, the family Scincidae is one of the most diverse families of lizards. S ...

which is found widely in southern China, Hong Kong, and

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...

(Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, West Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Salayar), and the Philippines (Palawan, Calamian Islands)).

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Lygosoma Reptiles of Cambodia Reptiles of China Reptiles of Hong Kong Reptiles of Indonesia Reptiles of Laos Reptiles of Malaysia Reptiles of the Philippines Reptiles of Thailand Reptiles of Vietnam Reptiles described in 1766 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Lygosominae-stub