Ablepharus grayanus (STOLICZKA, 1872)
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Ablepharus grayanus
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Minor Snake-eyed Skink |
| Synonym | Blepharosteres grayanus STOLICZKA 1872: 74 Ablepharus grayanus — BOULENGER 1887: 352 Ablepharus grayanus — SMITH 1935: 311 Ablepharus pannonicus grayanus — MERTENS 1970 Ablepharus grayanus — GREER 1974: 9 Ablepharus grayanus — DAS 1996: 45 Ablepharus grayanus — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 Ablepharus grayanus — KARAMIANI et al. 2018 |
| Distribution | SW India (incl. Gujarat), S Pakistan, Iran, possibly Afghanistan (LEVITON 1959: 461) Type locality: Waggur district, N.E. Cutch |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Syntypes: ZSI 5403, NMW |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Body slender shorter the tail moderately depressed. Snout obtuse; rostral reaches the top of the head and it is broader than high; anterior frontal single hexagonal broadly in contact with the rostral; but narrowly with the vertical; posterior frontal separated; each a little smaller than anterior frontal; and in contact with a small shield on the upper anterior angle of the eye; vertical elongate, subquadrangular, posterior sides the longer ones; three superciliary shields, followed by two small ones, obliquely descending on the two temporal regions; anterior occipital single, pentagonal, pointed in the front, and behind forming a suture with a small suboval median. The number of scales around the body is, therefore, generally only 26 and 28 and rarely 30. Occipital behind which the two elongated occipital also forms a suture; nasal single, lateral, followed by the postnasal; one elongately quadrangular loreal; two rows of the small shield along the anterior upper and posterior edge of the eye; one small postocular followed a little higher up by a large temporal, in contact with the last upper labial and the post occipital; a few enlarged shields behind the occipitals; 18-20 longitudinal rows of scales around the middle of the body, and 36-38 transverse rows between fore and the hind limbs; 7 upper labials, the 5th longest, under the eye, the last highest; 6 lower labials; first chin shield single, followed by the 3 pairs of which only the first forms a suture; two perineal shields enlarged; subcaudals in one row, enlarged, and very numerous. The fore-limb when laid forward reached the angle of the mouth, the hind-limb is three-fifths the distance between it and the fore-limb (contributed by Dikansh Parmar, 25 March 2022). |
| Comment | Distribution: previously reported from mountain regions of the eastern former Soviet central Asia (possibly now Kyrgyzstan?) [fide Terent'ev and Chernov], and Iran, but probably representing other species. See Sindaco & Jeremencenko 2008: 336 (map 111). |
| Etymology | Named after British zoologist John Edward Gray (1800 – 1875), Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum in London from 1840 until 1874, although he started working at the museum in 1824. |
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