Nessia burtonii GRAY, 1839

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Burton's Nessia
Synonym	Nessia burtonii GRAY 1839: 336 Nessia Burtonii — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 781 Acontias burtonii — BOULENGER 1887 Acontias (Nessia) burtonii — DERANIYAGALA 1931 Nessia burtonii — SMITH 1935: 357 Nessia burtonii — TAYLOR 1950: 509 Nessia burtonii — DAS 1996: 47 Nessia burtonii — SOMAWEERA & SOMAWEERA 2009
Distribution	Sri Lanka Type locality: Haycock Mountain, near Hiniduma, Sri Lanka, 06°20’N, 80°18’E, ~660 m (elevation) (neotype locality); original type locality unknown (fide SMITH 1935, Taylor 1950)
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Neotype: NMSL (= WHT) 1573, designated by BATUWITA & EDIRISINGHE 2017. Original Holotype: FPM, no locality (lost).
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Comment	Type: not in BMNH fide P. Campbell (pers. comm., 25 July 2014) Type species: Nessia burtonii GRAY 1839: 336 is the type species of the genus Nessia GRAY 1839. Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species.
References	BATUWITA, Sudesh; Udeni EDIRISINGHE 2017. Nessia gansi: a Second Three-toed Snake-Skink (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from Sri Lanka with the Designation of a Neotype for Nessia burtonii Gray. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle «Grigore Antipa» 60 (1): 377–388; DOI: 10.1515/travmu-2017-0001 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Boulenger, G. A. 1887. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) III. Lacertidae, Gerrhosauridae, Scincidae, Anelytropsidae, Dibamidae, Chamaeleontidae. London: 575 pp. - get paper here Boulenger, George A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp. - get paper here Duméril, A. M. C. and G. Bibron. 1839. Erpétologie Générale on Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Vol. 5. Roret/Fain et Thunot, Paris, 871 pp. - get paper here Gray,J.E. 1839. Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 2 (11): 331-337 [continued from page 293] - get paper here Günther, A. 1864. The Reptiles of British India. London (Taylor & Francis), xxvii + 452 pp. - get paper here Jayaneththi, Hareschandra Bandula 2015. Vertebrate fauna of Morankanda-Mukalana secondary forest patch in Sri Lanka: A checklist reported from 2004-2008 survey. RUHUNA JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 6: 21- 41 - get paper here Manthey, U. 1981. Die Echsen des Ceylonischen Regenwaldes und seiner Randgebiete. Sauria 3 (2): 25-35 - get paper here Smith, M.A. 1935. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Reptiles and Amphibia, Vol. II. Sauria. Taylor and Francis, London, 440 pp. Somarathna, Lankani 2026. Catalogue of wet preserved Skinks specimens deposited in the Colombo National Museum, Sri Lanka. Conference paper - get paper here Somaweera, R. & Somaweera, N. 2009. Lizards of Sri Lanka: a colour guide with field keys. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 304 pp. Taylor, E.H. 1953. A review of the lizards of Ceylon. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 35 (12): 1525-1585 - get paper here Taylor, Edward H. 1950. Ceylones lizards of the family Scincidae. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 33 (2): 481-518 - get paper here Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List http://www.SriLankanReptiles.com/ Google images

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