Scincella darevskii NGUYEN, ANANJEVA, ORLOV, RYBALTOVSKY & BÖHME, 2010

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Darevsky’s Ground Skink Vietnamese: Thãn lãn cô da-rep-x-ki
Synonym	Scincella darevskii NGUYEN, ANANJEVA, ORLOV, RYBALTOVSKY & BÖHME 2010 Scincella darevskii — NGUYEN et al. 2025 Scincella darevskii — BRAGIN et al. 2025
Distribution	N Vietnam (Dien Bien) Type locality: Tuan Giao District, Dien Bien Province (21°34’18’’ N 103°28’32’’ E), elevation 1450 m above sea level.
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: ZISP 25742, an adult female collected in June 2002 by Evgeny Rybaltovsky.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Size large (SVL 88.6 mm); prefrontals separated; supraoculars 5; primary temporal single; external ear opening present, with 3 lobules on an- terior margin; midbody scales in 28 rows; dorsal scales smooth, in 6 rows across the back; paravertebral scales 62, not widened; dorsum and tail base bronze brown with light dorsolateral stripe from the neck to hindlimb; upper lateral zone with dark brown stripe from nostril to anterior corner of eye and from posterior corner of eye to tail base; another light stripe running from nostril across below the eye to tympanum and continuous to anterior groin. 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 47 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Abundance: only known from the type specimen (Meiri et al. 2017).
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Bragin, A.M., Zenin, E.S., Le, S.X., Nguyen, D.T., Nguyen, T.V., Bobrov, V.V. & Poyarkov, N.A. 2025. Gold of the highlands: a new ground skink (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae: Scincella Mittleman, 1950) from southern Vietnam. Zootaxa 5701 (3): 247–291 - 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 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, S. N., Nguyen, L. T., Van Le, M., Nguyen, V. D. H., Phan, K. D., Vo, T. D. H., ... & Che, J. 2025. Two new skinks of the genus Scincella Mittleman, 1950 (Squamata: Scincidae) from southern Vietnam. European Journal of Taxonomy, 989, 266-288 - get paper here Nguyen, Truong Quang; Natalia B. Ananjeva, Nikolai L. Orlov, Evgeny Rybaltovsky, and Wolfgang Böhme 2010. A New Species of the Genus Scincella Mittlemann, 1950 (Squamata: Scincidae) from Vietnam. Russ. J. Herpetol. 17 (4): 269-274 - get paper here OKABE, S., MOTOKAWA, M., KOIZUMI, Y., NGUYEN, T. Q., NGUYEN, T. T., & BUI, H. T. 2024. A new species of the genus Scincella (Squamata: Scincidae) from Mount Fansipan, Hoang Lien Son Range, northwestern Vietnam. Zootaxa 5537(3), 407-423 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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