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Dasia griffini TAYLOR, 1915

IUCN Red List - Dasia griffini - Vulnerable, VU
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Higher TaxaScincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Griffin's Dasia
G: Griffins Baumskink 
SynonymDasia griffini TAYLOR 1915: 104
Dasia olivaceum griffini — TAYLOR 1922: 204
Dasia griffini — BROWN & ALCALA 1980: 62 
DistributionPalawan (Philippines)

Type locality: Palawan, P. I.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: lost, originally BSMP 1777 (Bureau of Science), Coll., L. E. Griffin. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: “Similar to Dasia semicincta, but with a very much shorter head and more pointed snout; much narrower across the orbital region; the frontal longer than frontoparietal and interparietal together; scales in 26 rows around the body; scales larger than in D. semicincta; supranasals with a broad suture.” (Taylor 1915: 104)


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EtymologyNamed after Professor Lawrence Edmonds Griffin (1874-1949), a herpetologist at Missouri Valley University and formerly professor of zoology in the University of the Philippines. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Brown, WC. & A.C. ALCALA 1980. Philippine Lizards of the family Scincidae. Silliman Univ. Nat. Sci., Dumaguete City, Mon., Ser. 2: i-xi + 1-246.
  • Greer, Allen Eddy, Jr. 1970. The Relationships of the Skinks Referred to the Genus Dasia. Breviora (348): 1-30 - get paper here
  • HARIKRISHNAN, S.; KARTHIKEYAN VASUDEVAN, ANSLEM DE SILVA, V. DEEPAK, NILADRI BHUSAN KAR, ROHIT NANIWADEKAR, ALBERT LALREMRUATA, K. REBEKAH PRASOONA & RAMESH K AGGARWAL 2012. Phylogeography of Dasia Gray, 1830 (Reptilia: Scincidae), with the description of a new species from southern India. Zootaxa 3233: 37–51
  • Inger,R.F. & Brown, W.C. 1980. Species of the scincid genus Dasia GRAY. Fieldiana: Zoology 3: 1-11 - get paper here
  • Taylor, E.H. 1915. New species of Philippine lizards. Philippine Journal of Science. 10: 89-109 - get paper here
  • Taylor, E.H. 1922. The lizards of the Philippine Islands. Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Bureau of Science, Government of the Philippine Islands, Manila, Publication no. 17: 269 pp. - get paper here
  • Taylor, E.H. 1944. Present location of certain herpetological and other type specimens. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 30 (1): 117-187. - get paper here
 
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