Nessia monodactyla (GRAY, 1839)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: One-toed Nessia
Synonym	Evesia monodactylus GRAY 1839: 336 Evesia bellii DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 782 (fide Brygoo 1985) Nessia monodactyla — GÜNTHER 1864 Acontias monodactylus — BOULENGER 1887: 425 Acontias monodactylus — CAMP 1923: 355 Evesia monodactyla — CAMP 1923: 410 Acontias (Nessia) monodactylus — DERANIYAGALA 1931 Nessia monodactyla — SMITH 1935: 358 Nessia monodactyla — TAYLOR 1950: 511 Evesia monodactyla — MANTHEY 1981 Evesia bellii — FRANK & RAMUS 1995 Nessia monodactylus — DAS 1996: 47 Nessia monodactylus — ZIESMANN et al. 2007 Nessia monodactylus — SOMAWEERA & SOMAWEERA 2009 Nessia monodactylus — DAS & DAS 2017
Distribution	Sri Lanka Type locality: unknown (fide SMITH 1935) Type locality: “Indes-Orientales” (bellii)
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MNHN-RA 0018; originally in private collection T. Bell, from unknown locality (East Indies, donated Bell, fide Duméril & Duméril, 1851). Holotype: MNHN [Evesia bellii]
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Comment
Etymology	Presumably from the Greek monos (one) plus daktylos (digit), alluding to the single toe of this species.
References	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 Brygoo, E.R. 1985. Les types des scincidés (Reptiles, Sauriens) du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, catalogue critique. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. (4e sér.) 7 (sect. A 3), suppl.: 1-126 Camp, Charles Lewis 1923. Classification of the Lizards. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 48 (11): 289-481. - get paper here Das, Indraneil & Abhijit Das 2017. A Naturalist’s Guide to the Reptiles of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd., Oxford, 176 pp. Duméril, A. M. C. and G. Bibron. 1839. Erpétologie Générale on Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Vol. 5. Roret/Fain et Thunot, Paris, 871 pp. - get paper here Gray,J.E. 1839. Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 2 (11): 331-337 [continued from page 293] - get paper here Günther, A. 1864. The Reptiles of British India. London (Taylor & Francis), xxvii + 452 pp. - get paper here Manthey, U. 1981. Die Echsen des Ceylonischen Regenwaldes und seiner Randgebiete. Sauria 3 (2): 25-35 - 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. Somaweera, R. & Somaweera, N. 2009. Lizards of Sri Lanka: a colour guide with field keys. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 304 pp. Taylor, E.H. 1953. A review of the lizards of Ceylon. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 35 (12): 1525-1585 - get paper here Taylor, Edward H. 1950. Ceylones lizards of the family Scincidae. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 33 (2): 481-518 - get paper here Ziesmann, S.; Klaas, P.& Janzen, P. 2007. Von Skinken und anderen Echsen [Sri Lankas]. Draco 7 (30): 18-23 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List http://www.SriLankanReptiles.com/ Google images

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