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Riopa anguina THEOBALD, 1868

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Lygosominae (Lygosomini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymRiopa anguina THEOBALD 1868: 27 (part.)
Riopa anguina — ANDERSON 1871: 159
Riopa anguina — STOLICZKA 1871: 195
Lygosoma anguininum — BOULENGER 1887: 313
Lygosoma anguinum — BOULENGER 1893: 320
Riopa anguina — SMITH 1935: 321
Lygosoma anguinum — GEISSLER et al. 2012
Riopa anguina — FREITAS et al. 2019 
DistributionMyanmar (= Burma) (Pegu district), Thailand

Type locality: Pegu district [= Myanmar]  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: ZSI 5197 
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Comment 
EtymologyApparently after Latin anguis = snake, for its snake-like appearance. 
References
  • Anderson, J. 1871. On some Indian reptiles. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1871: 149-211 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1887. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) III. Lacertidae, Gerrhosauridae, Scincidae, Anelytropsidae, Dibamidae, Chamaeleontidae. London: 575 pp. - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e Regioni Vicine LII. Concluding report on the reptiles and batrachians obtained in Burma by Signor L. Fea, dealing with the collection made in Pegu and the Karin Hills in 1887-88. Annali Mus. civ. Genova (2) 13: 304-347 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, George A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp. - get paper here
  • Chan-ard, T., Parr, J.W.K. & Nabhitabhata, J. 2015. A field guide to the reptiles of Thailand. Oxford University Press, NY, 352 pp. [see book reviews by Pauwels & Grismer 2015 and Hikida 2015 for corrections] - get paper here
  • FREITAS, <br />ELYSE S.; ANIRUDDHA DATTA-ROY, PRAVEEN KARANTH, L. LEE GRISMER and CAMERON D. SILER 2019. Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for African, Asian and Indian supple and writhing skinks (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 186 (4): 1067–1096 - get paper here
  • GEISSLER, PETER; TIMO HARTMANN & THY NEANG 2012. A new species of the genus Lygosoma Hardwicke & Gray, 1827 (Squamata: Scincidae) from northeastern Cambodia, with an updated identification key to the genus Lygosoma in mainland Southeast Asia. Zootaxa 3190: 56–68 - get paper here
  • Hallermann, J.; Ananjeva, N.; Orlov, N. & Tillack, F. 2002. Leonardo Fea's historical collections of Amphibia and Reptilia from Burma deposited at the Zoologisches Museum Hamburg. Mitt. Hamb. Zool. Mus. Inst. 99: 139-153 - get paper here
  • Miller, A. H. and G. R. Zug 2016. An enigmatic Lygosoma (Reptilia: Scincidae) from northern Myanmar. Herpetological Review 47(3): 373-374. - get paper here
  • Poyarkov, Nikolay A.; Tan Van Nguyen, Evgeniy S. Popov,Peter Geissler, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Thy Neang, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Natalia B. Ananjeva, and Nikolai L. Orlov 2023. RECENT PROGRESS IN TAXONOMIC STUDIES, BIOGEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS, AND REVISED CHECKLIST OF REPTILES IN INDOCHINA. Russian Journal of Herpetology 30 (5): 255-576 (also as vol 28 (3A): 1 – 110 [2021]) - get paper here
  • Sánchez-Vialas, A.; COPETE-MOSQUERA, L. A., & CALVO-REVUELTA, M. 2024. Contributions to the amphibians and reptiles of Myanmar: insights from the Leonardo Fea legacy housed at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales of Madrid. Zootaxa 5457(1), 1-64 - get paper here
  • Siler, Cameron D.; Brendan B. Heitz, Drew R. Davis, Elyse S. Freitas, Anchalee Aowphol, Korkhwan Termprayoon and L. Lee Grismer 2018. New Supple Skink, Genus Lygosoma (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae), from Indochina and Redescription of Lygosoma quadrupes (Linnaeus, 1766). Journal of Herpetology 52 (3): 332-347. - get paper here
  • Smith, M.A. 1935. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Reptiles and Amphibia, Vol. II. Sauria. Taylor and Francis, London, 440 pp.
  • Stoliczka, F. 1871. Notes on new or little-known Indian lizards. Proc. asiat. Soc. Bengal (Calcutta) 1871: 192-195 - get paper here
  • Stoliczka, F. 1872. Notes on various new or little-known Indian lizards. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal xli (2): 86-135 - get paper here
  • Theobald, William 1868. Catalogue of the reptiles of British Birma, embracing the provinces of Pegu, Martaban, and Tenasserim; with descriptions of new or little-known species. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 10: 4-67. - get paper here
 
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