Ablepharus tragbulensis (ALCOCK, 1898)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Tragbul ground skink
Synonym	Lygosoma himalayanum tragbulensis ALCOCK 1898: 36 Scincella tragbulense — OUBOTER 1986 Scincella ladacensis tragbulense — DAS 1996 Asymblepharus tragbulensis — DAS, DATTAGUPTA & GAYEN 1998 Scincella tragbulense — SHEA & GREER 2002: 156 Himalblepharus [sic] tragbulense — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 Asymblepharus tragbulensis — CHAPPLE et al. 2021 Ablepharus tragbulensis — MIRZA et al. 2022 (by implication) Asymblepharus tragbulense — MOHAPATRA et al. 2024 (in error)
Distribution	India, Pakistan ? Type locality: Tragbul Pass, (34° 29'N, 74° 40'E), about 50 Km NNW Srinagar, Kashmir, India and Pakistan, 9000 ft.
Reproduction
Types	Syntypes: ZSI 13860–61
Diagnosis
Comment	Distribution: Not in Pakistan fide KHAN 2002 (pers. comm.) who lists Scincella ladacensis and S. himalayana only. Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017), and a total of five specimens (two syntypes and three additional topotypes) of this species (Borkin et al. 2018).
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Alcock, A.W. 1898. Report on the Natural History Results of the Pamir Boundary Commission. Calcutta (1897), 45 pp. - get paper here Borkin, Leo J.; Spartak N. Litvinchuk, Daniel A. Melnikov & Dmitriy V. Skorinov 2018. Altitudinal distribution of skinks of the genus Asymblepharus in the Western Himalaya, India (Reptilia: Sauria: Scincidae). In: Hartmann, Barclay & Weipert: Biodiversität und Naturausstattung im Himalaya VI. - Erfurt 2018: 163-167 - get paper here Chapple, David G; Roll, Uri; Böhm, Monika; Aguilar, Rocío Amey, Andrew P Austin, Chris C Baling, Marleen Barley, Anthony J Bates, Michael F Bauer, Aaron M Blackburn, Daniel G Bowles, Phil Brown, Rafe M Chandramouli, S R Chirio, Laurent Cogger, Hal Co 2021. Conservation Status of the World’s Skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and Geographic Patterns in Extinction Risk. Biological Conservation 257: 109101 - get paper here Das, I., B. Dattagupta & N. Gayen 1998. Systematic status of Lygosoma himalayanum tragbulensis Alcock, "1897" 1898 (Sauria: Scincidae) collected by the Pamir boundary commisson, 1885. Russ. J. Herpetol. 5 (2): 147-150. - get paper here 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 Mirza ZA, Bragin AM, Bhosale H, Gowande GG, Patel H, Poyarkov NA. 2022. A new ancient lineage of ablepharine skinks (Sauria: Scincidae) from eastern Himalayas with notes on origin and systematics of the group. PeerJ 10:e12800 - get paper here Mohapatra, P. P., Ray, S., Sarkar, S., Deuti, K., Palot, M. J., Sethy, P. G. S., & Bahuguna, A. 2024. Checklist of Fauna of India: Chordata: Reptilia Zoological Survey of India - 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 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 Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here
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