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Scincella rufocaudata (DAREVSKY & NGUYEN VAN SANG, 1983)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Red-tailed ground skink 
SynonymSphenomorphus rufocaudatus DAREVSKY & NGUYEN VAN SANG 1983
Scincella rufocaudatus — BOBROV 1995
Sphenomorphus rufocaudatus — STUART et al. 2006
Scincella rufocaudata — GRISMER et al. 2007
Sphenomorphus rufocaudatus — NGUYEN et al. 2009
Scincella rufocaudata — NGUYEN et al. 2010
Scincella rufocaudata — JESTRZEMSKI et al. 2013
Scincella rufocaudata — NEANG et al. 2018
Scincella rufocaudata — STUART et al. in WCS 2024
Scincella rufocaudata — NGUYEN et al. 2025
Scincella rufocaudata — BRAGIN et al. 2025 
DistributionVietnam (Gia Lai, Vinh Phuc), Cambodia, Laos

Type locality: Gia Lai Province, Tai Nguyen Plateau, Buon Luoi, 60 km N of An Khe, South Vietnam.  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: ZISP 19797; paratypes: ZISP 19798.1–19798.11, 19799.1–19799.13 (24), ZFMK 44201, ZMMU 
DiagnosisUnfortunately 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 46 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentDAREVSKY et al. (1983) provide a key to Vietnamese Sphenomorphus. 
References
  • BARABANOV, ANDREI & KONSTANTIN MILTO 2017. An annotated type catalogue of the anguid, dibamid, scincid and varanid lizards in the Department of Herpetology, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia (Reptilia: Sauria: Anguidae, Dibamidae, Scincidae and Varanidae). Zootaxa 4244 (1): 065–078 - get paper here
  • Bobrov V.V., Semenov D.V. 2008. Lizards of Vietnam [in Russian]. Moscow, 236 pp.
  • Bobrov, V. V. 1995. Checklist and bibliography of lizards of Vietnam. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (105): - get paper here
  • Böhme, Wolfgang 2014. Herpetology in Bonn. Mertensiella 21. vi + 256 pp. - 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
  • Darevsky I S; Nguyen Van Sang, 1983. New and little known lizard species from Vietnam [in Russian]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 62 (12): 1827-1837
  • Grismer, L.L. et al. 2007. THE HERPETOFAUNA OF THE PHNOM AURAL WILDLIFE SANCTUARY AND CHECKLIST OF THE HERPETOFAUNA OF THE CARDAMOM MOUNTAINS, CAMBODIA. Hamadryad 31 (2): 216 – 241 - get paper here
  • Grismer, L.L., Neang, T., Chav, T. & Grismer, J.L. 2008. Checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of the Cardamom region of Southwestern Cambodia. Cambodian Journal of Natural History 2008(1): 12–28 - get paper here
  • Jestrzemski, Daniel; Stefan Schütz, Truong Quang Nguyen, Thomas Ziegler 2013. A survey of amphibians and reptiles in Chu Mom Ray National Park, Vietnam, with implications for herpetofaunal conservation. Asian Journal of Conservation Biology, 2 (2): 88–110 - 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
  • 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, S.V., Ho, C.T. and Nguyen, T.Q. 2009. Herpetofauna of Vietnam. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 768 pp.
  • Nguyen, T.Q; Nguyen, V.S.; Böhme, W. & Ziegler, T. 2010. A new species of Scincella (Squamata: Scincidae) from Vietnam . Folia Zool. 59 (2): 115– 121 - 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
  • Schmitz, A. & Ziegler, T. 2003. Sphenomorphus rufocaudatus. Herpetological Review 34 (4): 385 - get paper here
  • Stuart, B.; Sok, K. & Neang, T. 2006. A collection of amphibians and reptiles from hilly Eastern Cambodia. Raffles Bull. Zool. 54 (1): 129-155 - get paper here
  • Stuart, B.L. & Emmett, D.A. 2006. A Collection of Amphibians and Reptiles from the Cardamom Mountains, Southwestern Cambodia. Fieldiana Zool. N.S. (109): 1-27 - get paper here
  • WCS 2024. Wildlife in Lao PDR, 2024 Status Report. Vientiane; Wildlife Conservation Society Lao PDR Program
 
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