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Ablepharus capitaneus (OUBOTER, 1986)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Large ground skink 
SynonymScincella capitanea OUBOTER 1986: 31
Scincella capitanea — DAS 1996: 48
Asymblepharus capitaneus — EREMCHENKO et al. 1998
Asymblepharus (Himalablepharus) capitaneus — EREMCHENKO 2003
Scincella capitanea — LINKEM, DIESMOS & BROWN 2011
Ablepharus capitaneus — BRAGIN et al. 2025
Ablepharus capitanius — BHATTARAI et al. 2026 (in error) 
DistributionNepal

Type locality: 3 km W . of Dhampus, 1850 m elevation, Annapurna region, Central Nepal.  
Reproductionoviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: RMNH 20464, 29-V-1981, SH 741, leg. P.E. Ouboter & L.M.R. Nanhoe. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A very large and robust Scincella, with a maximum snout-vent length of 78.5mm (x = 68.2 ± 10.0mm) and well-developed limbs. Head small; neck wider than the head. Thirty to 32 scales around midbody. Ciliars not thickened. Palpebral disc rather small. Ear very small, slit-shaped, without projecting lobules on the anterior margin (Ouboter 1986: 31).


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Comment 
EtymologyFrom Latin capitaneus, meaning large. 
References
  • Baral R., Kadariya R. 2025. Herpetofauna of the Annapurna Conservation Area. Snake Conservation Society Nepal and National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC), Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP), Nepal. 84 pp - get paper here
  • Bhattarai BP, Regmi S, Aryal B, Kandel P, Adhikari JN. 2026. Elevation Filters Lizard Species Occurrences and Assemblages in Chitwan Annapurna Landscape, Nepal. Ecol Evol. 16(6): e73732 - get paper here
  • Bhattarai, B. P., S.Regmi, B.Aryal, P.Kandel, and J. N.Adhikari. 2026. Elevation Filters Lizard Species Occurrences and Assemblages in Chitwan Annapurna Landscape, Nepal. Ecology and Evolution16, no. 6: e73732 - get paper here
  • Bhattarai, S., B.P. Neupane, B. Gautam, P. Shrestha, A.R. Olson, F. Hogan & W. Wright 2026. Herpetofauna of the Chitwan-Annapurna Landscape, Nepal: a comprehensive species checklist including occurrence in protected areas, with suggested conservation recommendations. Journal of Threatened Taxa 18(5): 28807–28829 - get paper here
  • Bragin, A. M., Decemson, H., Lalremsanga, H. T., Mirza, Z. A., & Poyarkov, N. A. 2025. A new species of Himalayan skink of the genus Ablepharus (Squamata: Scincidae). SALAMANDRA, 61(4), 373-394
  • Cogălniceanu, D., Băncilă, R.I., Ghira, I.V. et al. 2025. Documenting six decades of change in herpetofauna occurrence patterns in a mountain ecosystem. Sci Rep 15, 41894 (2025) - get paper here
  • 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
  • Eremchenko, V.; Helfenberger,N.; K. B. Shah & A. M. Panfilov 1998. Two new species of skinks (Scincidae: Ligosominae [sic]) from Nepal [in Russian]. News nat. Acad. Sci. Kirgiz Republik, Bishkek (4): 41-45
  • Kästle , W., Rai, K. & Schleich, H.H. 2013. FIELD GUIDE to Amphibians and Reptiles of Nepal. ARCO-Nepal e.V., 625 pp. - 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
  • Nanhoe, L.M.R., & Ouboter, P.E. 1987. The distribution of reptiles and amphibians in the Annapurna-Dhaulagiri region (Nepal). Zoologische Verhandelingen (240): 1-105 - 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
  • 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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