Scincella ochracea (BOURRET, 1937)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Leiolopisma ochraceum BOURRET 1937: 17 Scincella ochracea — GREER 1974: 7 Scincella reevesii — OUBOTER 1986: 41 Scincella reevesii — BOBROV 1995: 18 Scincella melanosticta — DAREVSKY 1986: 65 Scincella ochracea — SHEA & GREER 2002 Scincella ochracea — EREMCHENKO 2003 Scincella ochracea — LINKEM, DIESMOS & BROWN 2011
Distribution	Vietnam (Son La)
Reproduction	oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Lectotype: MNHN-RA 1999.8025; paralectotypes MNHN-RA 1948.0056 and MNHN-RA 1948.0057; paralectotypes MNHN-RA 1948.0056 and MNHN-RA 1948.0057, see Brygoo (1985). Formerly author's collection S99. Described from two specimens, with unknown locality (Tonkin or Yunnan), obtained from the old collection of the Geological Service in Indochina. Bourret (2009) subsequently altered the type locality to Mung Ouneua, Laos. It is not clear which two of the three listed specimens were used by Bourret to describe the species.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis in EREMCHENKO 2003: 22.
Comment	Has been considered as synonym of S. reevesii.
References	Bobrov V.V., Semenov D.V. 2008. Lizards of Vietnam [in Russian]. Moscow, 236 pp. Bourret,R. 1937. Notes herpetologiques sur l'Indochine francaise. XII. Les lezards de la collection du Laboratoire des Sciences Naturelles de l'Universite. Descriptions de cinq especes nouvelles. XIII. Serpents... Bull. Gén. Instr. Pub. Hanoi (May 1937): 1-22; 23-39 Eremchenko, V. K 2003. Generic and specific redefinition and redescription of the North-Vietnam skink (Scincella melanosticta (Boulenger, 1887). Izvestiya Vuzov (= Proceedings of Universitities and Institutes), Bishkek, (1-2): 20-28 Greer, A.E. 1974. The generic relationships of the scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 1-67. - get paper here Linkem, Charles W.; Arvin C. Diesmos, Rafe M. Brown 2011. Molecular systematics of the Philippine forest skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Sphenomorphus): testing morphological hypotheses of interspecific relationships. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 1217–1243 - get paper here Neang, Thy; Somaly Chan, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Jr.. 2018. A new species of smooth skink (Squamata: Scincidae: Scincella) from Cambodia. Zoological Research, DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2018.008 - get paper here Nguyen, Truong Quang; Anh Van Pham, Hoang Van Tu, Tan Van Nguyen, Thomas Ziegler 2018. New records and an updated list of lizards from Son La Province, Vietnam. Herpetology Notes 11: 209-216 - get paper here Ouboter P E 1986. A revision of the genus Scincella (Reptilia: Sauria: Scincidae) of Asia, with some notes on its evolution. Zoologische Verhandelingen (229): 1-66 - get paper here Pham A, Le D, Nguyen S, Ziegler T, Nguyen T 2015. New provincial records of skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) from northwestern Vietnam. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e4284; doi: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e4284 - get paper here Shea, Glenn M. and Allen E. Greer 2002. From Sphenomorphus to Lipinia: Generic reassignment of two poorly known New Guinea skinks. Journal of Herpetology 36 (2): 148-156 - get paper here Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
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