Ablepharus flammeus BRAGIN, DECEMSON, LALREMSANGA, MIRZA & POYARKOV, 2025
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Ablepharus flammeus
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Fire-bellied Ground Skink |
| Synonym | Ablepharus flammeus BRAGIN, DECEMSON, LALREMSANGA, MIRZA & POYARKOV 2025: 379 |
| Distribution | India (Uttarakhand) Type locality: Duggal Bittha, Chopta, Uttarakhand, India (30.48° N, 79.17° E) at an elevation of 2,520 m a.s.l. |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype: ZSI-R-29457 (field no. BAM-171) (Figs 3, 5, 6, 7), adult male, collected by Andrey M. Bragin on 29 October 2022. Paratypes: Six males, one female, and two juveniles. Males: MZMU3657, MZMU3652, MZMU3658, MZMU3659, and MZMU3653 (field no. BAM-170, BAM-172, BAM-173, BAM-174, and BAM-175, respectively) collected on 29 October 2022 from Duggal Bittha, Chopta, Uttarakhand, India (30.48° N, 79.17° E) at an elevation of 2,520 m a.s.l.; MZMU3660 (field no. BAM-176) collected on 29 October 2022 from the vicinity of Tungnath Temple, Chopta, Uttarakhand, India (30.48° N, 79.20° E) at an elevation of 3,305 m a.s.l. Female: MZMU3656 (field no. BAM-169) collected on 29 October 2022 from Duggal Bittha, Chopta, Uttarakhand, India (30.48° N, 79.17° E) at an elevation of 2,520 m a.s.l. Juveniles: MZMU3654 and MZMU3655 (field no. BAM-167 and BAM-168, respectively) collected on 29 October 2022 from Duggal Bittha, Chopta, Uttarakhand, India (30.48° N, 79.17° E) at an elevation of 2,520 m a.s.l. Andrey M. Bragin collected all the above specimens. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Ablepharus flammeus is a medium-sized, robust ablepharine skink with (1) snout–vent length (SVL) 41.6–50.6 mm; (2) head length (HL2) 7.7–9.1 mm; (3) tail length (TaL) 52.6–68.3 mm; (4) head, body, and caudal scales smooth; (5) supranasals absent; (6) nasal semi-divided; (7) the lower eyelid is movable, covered with small arranged granules and with large transparent window; (8) tympanum rounded, deeply sunk, with one (70%), two (20%) or three (10%) projecting lobules on the anterior border; (9) prefrontals two, separated by frontonasal and frontal or, rarely, prefrontals touch at one point; (10) frontal elongated, in contact with 1st and 2nd supraoculars laterally, rarely in contact with 3rd supraoculars; (11) frontoparietals two; (12) interparietal large, diamond-shaped, slightly elongated posteriorly, in contact with frontoparietals anteriorly and parietals posteriorly; (13) parietals in contact posterior to interparietal, not divided; (14) supraoculars four; (15) supralabials seven; (16) infralabials six; (17) chin shields in four pairs; (18) eight nuchals in four pairs behind parietals; (19) followed by four transverse dorsal rows between dorsolateral dark stripes, all similar in size; (20) 50–52 paravertebral scales rows; (21) 52–56 ventral longitudinal rows (including gulars); (22) 26–28 midbody scale rows; (23) two enlarged precloacals; (24) the central subcaudal row enlarged; (25) 12 subdigital lamellae beneath fourth finger; (26) 16 subdigital lamellae beneath fourth toe; (27) femoral scales large and oriented longitudinally; (28) dorsum brown, with absent or rarely dotted two dark vertebral stripes; (29) two dark dorsolateral stripes; (30) venter, lower flanks, ventral region of the neck, tail, and limbs of males and juveniles from orange to red, and yellow in females. (Bragin et al. 2025) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 16951 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
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