Barkudia melanosticta (SCHNEIDER, 1801)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Visakhapatnam limbless skink Telugu: renda talu pam (= two-headed snake)
Synonym	Anguis melanostictus SCHNEIDER 1801 Barkudia melanosticta — DAS 1999 Barkudia melanosticta — MURTHY 2010
Distribution	SE India (coastal NE Andhra Pradesh, near Visakhapatnam) Type locality: Coromandel coast, India. Neotype locality: Visakhapatnam (17° 42'N: 83° 18'E), Andhra Pradesh State, South-eastern India, 47.8 m above mean sea level.
Reproduction	oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Neotype: ZSI 20627, collected by P. N. Ganapati, 17 August 1954. (holotype, based on figure in Russell 1796, specimen lost). Designation by Das (1999).
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A member of the genus Barkudia Annandale, 1917, B. melanosticta (Schneider, 1810), can be distinguished from B. insularis Annandale, 1917, as follows: larger size (SVL 161.0-164.9 mm. vs. 107.0-143.0 mm); palatal teeth present (vs. absent); anterior lobe of tongue distinctly narrowed (vs. not differentiated from the posterior lobe of tongue); and lobules around ear opening absent (vs. present). (Das 1999) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. However, these details, e.g. detailed descriptions (about about 1.72 pages) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material.
Comment	Not listed by BOULENGER, Cat. liz. Limb morphology: Limbless. Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	Named after the Greek words melano = black, and Greek stiktos (στικτός), punctured, spotted.
References	Bauer, A.M. & Lavilla, E.O. (eds.) 2021. J. G. Schneider’s Historiae Amphibiorum: Herpetology at the Dawn of the 19th Century. SSAR, 848 pp. - get paper here Das, I. 1999. Anguis melanostictus SCHNEIDER, 1801, a valid species of Barkudia (Sauria: Scincidae) from southeastern India. Asiatic Herpetological Research 8: 13-17 - get paper here Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions 24 (2): 262-273 - get paper here Murthy, T.S.N. 2010. The reptile fauna of India. B.R. Publishing, New Delhi, 332 pp. Schneider, JOHANN GOTTLOB 1801. Historiae Amphibiorum naturalis et literariae. Fasciculus secundus continens Crocodilos, Scincos, Chamaesauras, Boas. Pseudoboas, Elapes, Angues. Amphisbaenas et Caecilias. Frommanni, Jena. 374 pp. - get paper here Venugopal, P.D. 2010. An updated and annotated list of Indian lizards (Reptilia: Sauria) based on a review of distribution records and checklists of Indian reptiles. Journal of Threatened Taxa 2 (3): 725-738. - get paper here Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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