Dasia Subcaerulea
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''Dasia subcaerulea'', Boulenger's dasia or Boulenger's tree skink, is a species of tree
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 ...
endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to the Western Ghats in south
India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...
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References

* Boulenger, G.A. 1891 On new or little known Indian and Malayan reptiles and batrachians. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 8: 288-292 * Greer, Allen Eddy Jr. 1970 The Relationships of the Skinks Referred to the Genus ''Dasia''. Breviora 348:1-30 * subcaerulea Reptiles of India Endemic fauna of the Western Ghats Reptiles described in 1891 Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger {{skink-stub