Ablepharus Tragbulensis
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''Ablepharus tragbulensis'' is a
species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
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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 ...
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Geographic range

''A. tragbulensis'' is found in
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, and possibly
Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...
. Type locality: "Tragbal icPass, at an elevation of about 9,000 feet".Alcock 1898. Tragbul Pass (34° 29' N, 74° 40' E), about NNW of Srinagar, Kashmir">Srinagar.html" ;"title=" Tragbul Pass (34° 29' N, 74° 40' E), about NNW of Srinagar"> Tragbul Pass (34° 29' N, 74° 40' E), about NNW of Srinagar, Kashmir, India and Pakistan, ].


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Further reading

*Alfred William Alcock, Alcock AW. 1898. ''Report on the Natural History Results of the Pamir Boundary Commission''. Calcutta
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Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India. 45 pp. + five plates. (''Lygosoma himalayanum'' var. ''tragbulensis'', new variation, p. 36). * Das I, Dattagupta B, Gayen N. 1998. Systematic status of ''Lygosoma himalayanum tragbulensis'' Alcock, "1897" 1898 (Sauria: Scincidae) collected by the Pamir boundary commission, 1885. ''Russ. J. Herpetol.'' 5 (2): 147-150. * Shea GM, Greer AE. 2002. From ''Sphenomorphus'' to ''Lipinia'': Generic reassignment of two poorly known New Guinea skinks. ''Journal of Herpetology'' 36 (2): 148-156. Ablepharus Reptiles described in 1898 Taxa named by Alfred William Alcock {{eugongylinae-stub