Nessia deraniyagalai TAYLOR, 1950

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Deraniyagala's Nessia
Synonym	Nessia deraniyagalai TAYLOR 1950: 516 Nessia deraniyagalai — DAS 1996: 47 Nessia deraniyagalai — SOMAWEERA & SOMAWEERA 2009
Distribution	Sri Lanka Type locality: 16 mi. N Trincomalee near shore, on small hillock at an elevation of about 10 m.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: FMNH 178287
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Comment	Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017).
References	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 24 (2): 262-273 - get paper here Somarathna, Lankani 2026. Catalogue of wet preserved Skinks specimens deposited in the Colombo National Museum, Sri Lanka. Conference paper - get paper here Somaweera, R. & Somaweera, N. 2009. Lizards of Sri Lanka: a colour guide with field keys. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 304 pp. Taylor, Edward H. 1950. Ceylones lizards of the family Scincidae. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 33 (2): 481-518 - get paper here Voort, M. van der 1990. Medieval Herpetology, part 10: Hier coemt L - Hoert van der N. Litteratura Serpentium 10 (6): 238-243 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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