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Lipinia pulchella (GRAY, 1845)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
SubspeciesLipinia pulchella levitoni (BROWN & ALCALA 1963)
Lipinia pulchella pulchella (GRAY 1845)
Lipinia pulchella taylori (BROWN & ALCALA 1956) 
Common NamesE: Beautiful Lipinia 
SynonymLygosoma (Leiolopisma) pulchellum GRAY 1845: 84
Leiolopisma pulchellum grande TAYLOR 1917: 374
Leiolopisma pulchellum — TAYLOR 1922: 212
Leiolopisma pulchellum grande — TAYLOR 1922: 214
Lygosoma (Leiolopisma) pulchellum — SMITH 1937: 224
Lygosoma (Leiolopisma) pulchellum — BROWN & ALCALA 1956: 7
Lygosoma (Leiolopisma) pulchellum — BROWN & ALCALA 1963
Lipinia pulchella — GREER 1974: 11
Lipinia pulchella — BROWN & ALCALA 1980: 93
Lipinia pulchella — DAS & AUSTIN 2007
Lipinia pulchella pulchellai — BINADAY et al. 2017

Lipinia pulchella levitoni (BROWN & ALCALA 1963)
Lygosoma (Leiolopisma) pulchella levitoni BROWN & ALCALA 1963: 78
Lipinia pulchella levitoni — BROWN & ALCALA 1980: 96

Lipinia pulchella taylori (BROWN & ALCALA 1956)
Lygosoma (Leiolopisma) puchellum taylori BROWN & ALCALA 1956: 8
Lipinia pulchella taylori GRAY — BROWN et al. 1996
Lipinia pulchella taylori — GAULKE 2011: 204 
DistributionPhilippines (Luzon, Mindanao, Negros, Bohol, Pollillo, Panay, Masbate)

Type locality: Philippines

grande: Mount Canlaon

levitoni: Philippines;

taylori: Philippines (Negros, Panay, Luzon ?); Type locality: “Mount Canlaon, Negros Island”, Philippines.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.8.16.41 (formerly xv.36a),
Holotype: FMNH 120953 [levitoni]
Holotype: CM 2202 [taylori] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus): Members of the genus are characterized by the following suite of characters: small body size(SVL to 58 mm); lower eyelid with a clear window (except in Lipinia leptosoma); auricular lobules absent; body scales smooth; longitudinal scale rows at midbody # 28; basal subdigital lamellae expanded (slightly in some taxa);postorbital absent; vomers fused; pterygoid teeth absent; dorsal color pattern typicallycomprising a pale (rarely dark) middorsal stripe at least anteriorly; visceral fat bodies absent (except in Lipinia noctua); brood size of two (exceptionally one, as in Lipinia rouxi) (Das and Greer, 2002). 
CommentType Species: Lygosoma pulchellum GRAY 1845 is the type species of the genus Lipinia Gray, 1845.

Synonymy: the status of Leiolopisma pulchellum grande is unclear.

Keys: Brown and Alcala 1980 provide a key to Philippine Lipinia. Poyarkov et al. 2019 provide a key to mainland Southeast-Asian Lipinia. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin “pulchella” = pretty. 
References
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