Leptoseps osellai (BÖHME, 1981)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Osella’s Skink G: Osellas Skink
Synonym	Larutia osellai BÖHME 1981 Leptoseps osellai — GREER 1997 Leptoseps osellai — CHAN-ARD et al. 1999: 26 Leptoseps osellai — DAREVSKY & ORLOV 2005
Distribution	Thailand Type locality: Thailand: Chiang Mai prov.: Mea Kuong.
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: MCSNV (= MSNVR) 35 (Mus. Civ. St. Nat. Verona. C.E.), leg. G. Osella, 16.1.1980.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A species of Larutia gen. nov., which is morphologically , easily distinguished from its four congeners by the possession of four digits and toes respectively on each limb, as well as by the reduced number of 18 midbody scale rows. Chorologically it is distinguished. by its occurence in northern Thailand, whereas the four other species are confined to the Malay peninsula and to Sumatra [from BÖHME 1981].
Comment	Abundance: probably rare; only known from 2 specimens (Darevsky & Orlov 2005, Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	named after Dr. Giuseppe Osella, the collector of the type locality.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Böhme,W. 1981. A new lygosomine skink from Thailand (Reptilia: Scincidae) [Larutia osellai]. BOLLETTINO DEL MUSEO CIVICO DI STORIA NATURALE DI VERONA 8: 375-382 Chan-ard, T., Parr, J.W.K. & Nabhitabhata, J. 2015. A field guide to the reptiles of Thailand. Oxford University Press, NY, 352 pp. [see book reviews by Pauwels & Grismer 2015 and Hikida 2015 for corrections] - get paper here Darevsky, I.S. & Orlov, N.L. 2005. New species of limb-reduced lygosomine skink genus Leptoseps GREER, 1997 (Sauria, Scincidae) from Vietnam. Russ. J. Herpetol. 12 (1): 65-68 - get paper here Greer, A. E. 1997. Leptoseps: A new genus of scincid lizards from Southeast Asia. Journal of Herpetology 31 (3): 393-398 - 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 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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