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Eutropis trivittata (HARDWICKE & GRAY, 1827)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Three-banded Mabuya
E: Striped Grass Mabuya, Striped Grass Skink [dissimilis] 
SynonymTiliqua trivittata HARDWICKE & GRAY 1827: 227
Euprepis dissimilis HALLOWELL 1857: 78
Euprepes monticola GÜNTHER 1864
Euprepes petersi STEINDACHNER 1867: 43
Euprepes trivittatus — BLANFORD 1870
Eumeces trivittatus — ANDERSON 1871: 158
Euprepes (Tiliqua) trivittatus — STOLICZKA 1872
Euprepes guentheri BLANFORD 1879: 123 (nom. nov. for monticola GÜNTHER)
Euprepes (Euprepes) warthii FISCHER 1885: 90
Mabuia dissimilis — BOULENGER 1887: 175
Mabuia dissimilis — HORA & CHOPRA 1923
Mabuia trivittata — ROSE 1926: 492
Mabuya hodgarti HORA 1927: 2
Mabuya dissimilis — SMITH 1935: 261
Mabuya trivittata — SMITH 1935: 275
Mabuya dissimilis — ANDERSON & LEVITON 1969
Mabuya dissimilis — DAS 1996: 47
Mabuya trivittata — DAS 1996: 47
Eutropis trivittata — MAUSFELD & SCHMITZ 2003
Eutropis dissimilis — MAUSFELD & SCHMITZ 2003
Mabuya dissimilis — KHAN 2004
Eutropis dissimilis — BAUER et al. 2007
Mabuya dissimilis — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Eutropis dissimilis — DATTA-ROY et al. 2015
Eutropis trivittata — AMARASINGHE et al. 2016
Eutropis trivittata — AMARASINGHE et al. 2021
Eutropis dissimilis — TENZIN et al 2022
Eutropis dissimilis — SHEHZAD et al. 2023 
DistributionIndia (Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Gujarat, Bombay district, Madras, Hyderabad, C.P., Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Orissa = Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal, N Karnataka), Pakistan, E Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh

Type locality: Dumdum (22° 38’ 31.24’’ N, 88° 25’ 52.21’’ E, datum = WGS84; 6 m above sea level), West Bengal, India fide Hardwicke & Gray (1827)].

dissimilis: Type locality: Bengal

monticola: Type locality: Sikkim and Himalayas, India

petersi: Type locality: Chamba and Rangna (West Himalayas).

warthi: Type locality: Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesIconotype. An illustration by Hardwicke in Gray (1834: plate 75; see Fig. 8 in Amarasinghe et al. 2021). Holotype: lost (formerly BMNH); syntypes: ANSP 9537, 9538. Specimen c under Tiliqua rufescens in Gray (1845: 109), presented by Gen T. Hardwicke, but not listed by Boulenger (1887).
Syntypes: ANSP 9537-38; Bengal (2) [dissimilis]
Holotype: SMNS 1264 (KNS 2283), collected from Dehradun, North India by Hugo Warth [Euprepes warthii] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A combination of the following characters distinguishes Eutropis trivittata from all other congeners: adults SVL of 92.1 mm, presence of vertebral and dorsolateral longitudinal white stripes, bicarinate (rarely tri-) mid dorsal scales, absence of nuchal pair (rarely first row of paravertebrals merged and visible as nuchals), three pre-auricular lobules, presence of transparent disc on the lower eyelid, 34-36 midbody scale rows, 54-64 ventrals, 48-54 paravertebrals, 13-16 lamellae beneath forth toe, absence of postnasal scale, and keeled temporal scales. (Amarasinghe et al. 2021).


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CommentIllustration: Gray (1834: plate 75).

Relationships: E. dissimilis is paraphyletic with other Eutropis; Pereira & Schrago 2017 found it as a sister of Toenayar novemcarinata.

Synonymy mostly after SMITH 1935, following Boulenger (1887) who synonymised Euprepes guentheri, Euprepes petersii, and Euprepes warthii with Mabuia dissimilis. Smith (1935) resurrected Mabuya trivittata from the synonymy of M. dissimilis which was mistakenly synonymized by Boulenger (1887) disregarding the priority principle. Mabuia vertebralis BOULENGER 1887 has been revalidated from the synonymy of E. trivittata and E. dissimilis synonymized with E. trivittata by Amarasinghe et al. 2021.

Distribution: Reports from Myanmar are doubtful. For a map see Amarasinghe et al. 2021: 83 (Fig. 9).

NCBI taxonID: 217860 [dissimilis] 
EtymologyNamed after Latin trivittatus, who bears three ribbons or bands. 
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