Lipinia macrotympanum (STOLICZKA, 1873)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Big-eared Lipinia
Synonym	Mocoa macrotympanum STOLICZKA 1873: 166 Lygosoma macrotympanum — BOULENGER 1887: 265 Leiolopisma macrotympanum — SMITH 1935: 308 Lipinia macrotympanum — GREER 1974: 11 Lipinia macrotympanum — DAS 1997 Lipinia macrotympana — DAS 1999 Lipinia macrotympanum — DAS & AUSTIN 2007 Lipinia macrotympana — DAS & DAS 2017 Lipinia macrotympanum — CHAPPLE et al. 2021
Distribution	India: Nicobar Islands, Andaman Islands Type locality: “South Andaman [...] Sandy beach in Macphersons’s Strait”.
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: ZSI 5571
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: 21–23 midbody scale rows; seven supralabials; and coloration of dorsum contrasting black and yellow and tail bright red in life (color photograph in Das, 2002) (from DAS & AUSTIN 2007).
Comment
References	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 Chapple, David G; Roll, Uri; Böhm, Monika; Aguilar, Rocío Amey, Andrew P Austin, Chris C Baling, Marleen Barley, Anthony J Bates, Michael F Bauer, Aaron M Blackburn, Daniel G Bowles, Phil Brown, Rafe M Chandramouli, S R Chirio, Laurent Cogger, Hal Co 2021. Conservation Status of the World’s Skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and Geographic Patterns in Extinction Risk. Biological Conservation 257: 109101 - get paper here Das, I. 1997. Rediscovery of Lipinia macrotympanum (Stoliczka, 1873) from the Nicobar Islands, India. Asiatic Herpetological Research 7: 23-26. - get paper here Das, I. 1999. Biogeography of the amphibians and reptiles of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. In: Ota,H. (ed) Tropical Island herpetofauna..., Elsevier, pp. 43-77 Das, I. & Austin, C.C. 2007. New Species of Lipinia (Squamata: Scincidae) from Borneo, Revealed by Molecular and Morphological Data. Journal of Herpetology 41 (1): 61 - get paper here Das, Indraneil & Abhijit Das 2017. A Naturalist’s Guide to the Reptiles of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd., Oxford, 176 pp. Gokulakrishnan, G.; C. Sivaperuman & S. R. Chandramouli 2020. Further records of a poorly-known insular endemic skink Lipinia macrotympanum (Stoliczka, 1873) (Squamata: Scincidae). Bonn zoological Bulletin 69 (1): 117–122 - 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. Stoliczka, F. 1873. Notes on some Andamese and Nicobarese Reptiles, with the descriptions of three new species of lizards. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 42: 162-169 - 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
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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