''Subdoluseps bowringii'', also known
commonly as Bowring's supple skink, Bowring's writhing skink, and the Christmas Island grass-skink, is a
species
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lizard
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in the
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Scincidae. The species is native to
Southeast Asia
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.
Etymology
The
specific name, ''bowringii'', is in honor of either
John Charles Bowring
John Charles Bowring (24 March 1821 – 20 June 1893) was a Hong Kong businessman, a partner in the firm Jardine, Matheson & Co., and a keen amateur naturalist and JP for the County of Devon.
He was the eldest son of Sir John Bowring (1792– ...
, who was a British amateur naturalist and businessman in Hong Kong, or his father
John Bowring
Sir John Bowring , or Phraya Siamanukulkij Siammitrmahayot, , , group=note (17 October 1792 – 23 November 1872) was a British political economist, traveller, writer, literary translator, polyglot and the fourth Governor of Hong Kong. He w ...
, who was a British diplomat and a governor of Hong Kong.
[ Beolens B, Watkins M, ]Grayson M
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* Grayson, Saskatchewan
* Rural Municipality of Grayson No. 184, Saskatchewan
United States
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(2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Lygosoma bowringii'', p. 36).
Geographic range
;West Malaysia, Pulau Tioman, Johor: Pulau Besar, Pulau Sibu; India (Andaman Islands),
;Philippines (Sulu Archipelago),
;Indonesia (
Borneo
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,
Sumatra ?,
Java
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,
Sulawesi),
;China (Hong Kong ),
Singapore
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,
India
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,
;Indochina west to
Myanmar
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(= Burma),
Vietnam
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,
Thailand
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,
Laos,
Cambodia
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,
;Australia (Cook Islands)
Type locality: Hong Kong.
References
Further reading
*
Boulenger GA (1887). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III ... Scincidae ....'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I–XL. (''Lygosoma bowringii'', pp. 308–309 + Plate XXIII, figure 3).
*Boulenger GA (1887). "An account of the Scincoid Lizards collected from Burma for the Genoa Civic Museum by Messrs. G.B. Comotto and L. Fea". ''Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova'', Series 2, 4: 618–624. (''Lygosoma comotti'', new species, p. 622).
*
Freitas ES,
Datta-Roy A,
Karanth P,
Grismer LL,
Siler CD (2019). "Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for African, Asian and Indian supple and writhing skinks (Scincidae: Lygosominae)". ''Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society'' 186 (4): 1067–1096. (''Subdoluseps bowringii'', new combination).
*
Günther A (1864). ''The Reptiles of British India.'' London: The Ray Society. (Taylor & Francis, printers). xxvii + 452 pp. + Plates I-XXVI. (''Eumeces bowringii'', new species, p. 91).
External links
Subdoluseps
Reptiles of Southeast Asia
Reptiles of Thailand
Reptiles of the Philippines
Fauna of Christmas Island
Reptiles described in 1864
Taxa named by Albert Günther
Reptiles of Borneo
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