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Higher TaxaScincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Indian Forest Skink, Himalayan Forest Skink
G: Indischer Waldskink
Chinese: 铜蜓蜥 
SynonymHinulia Indica GRAY 1853: 388
Eumeces indicus — ANDERSON 1871: 158
Lygosoma indicum — BOULENGER 1887: 241
Lygosoma zebratum BOULENGER 1887: 478
Lygosoma indicum — BOULENGER 1893: 319
Lygosoma cacharense ANNANDALE 1905: 145
Sphenomorphus indicus — STEJNEGER 1907: 216
Lygosoma (Hinulia) indicum — WERNER 1910: 43
Sphenomorphus indicus — VAN DENBURGH 1912
Lygosoma formosensis THOMPSON 1912
Sphenomorphus indicus formosensis VAN DENBURGH 1912
Lygosoma indica — THOMPSON 1912: 3
Lygosoma bowringi MELL 1922 (not of GÜNTHER) (part.)
Lygosoma (Hinulia) indicum taeniatum WERNER 1922: 220
Lygosoma (Hinulia) indicum multilineatum WERNER 1922: 221
Lygosoma indicum — HORA 1927
Sphenomorphus indicus — SCHMIDT 1928: 80
Lygosoma indicum indicum — SMITH 1935: 281
Sphenomorphus indicus indicus — TAYLOR 1963: 1020
Sphenomorphus formosensis — GREER & PARKER 1967
Sphenomorphus indicus indicus — GRANDISON 1972: 83
Sphenomorphus indicus — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 278
Sphenomorphus indicus — COX et al. 1998: 119
Sphenomorphus cf. indicus — CHAN-ARD et al. 1999: 144
Sphenomorphus indicus — ZIEGLER 2002: 205
Lygosoma indicum — LI et al. 2003
Sphenomorphus indicus — GRISMER 2006
Sphenomorphus indicus — NUR-AMALINA et al. 2017 
DistributionS China (incl. Hainan, west to E Xizang = TIbet, and north to Henan, Shaanxi, and Gansu, Guangdong: Nan Ao Island, Fujian, Yunnan, Sichuan), Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand (likely in Bilauk Tuang mountain fide TAYLOR 1963: 1020), Vietnam (Son La, Thanh Hoa etc.), Cambodia,
India (Assam, Darjeeling, Sikkim, Mizoram) east to Indochina and south to W Malaysia, Laos

Type locality: Sikkim, Himalayas.  
Reproductionovovivparous. Temperature‐dependent sex determination (TSD) fide Nemesházi & Bókony 2023. 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946.8.15.49 and BMNH 1946.8.19.27, but declared unknown (fide NGUYEN et al. 2009)
Holotype: ZSI 12076 [Lygosoma cacharense Annandale 1905]
Syntype: NMW [multilineatum]
Syntype: NMW [taeniatum]
Holotype: ZMH R06566; syntypes: MSNG [zebratum]
Holotype: CAS [formosensis] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1963 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentNomenclature: For a discussion of priority issues concerning the nomenclature see Zhao & Adler 1993.

Synonymy partly after SMITH 1935. Boulenger (1893) regarded L. zebratum BOULENGER 1887 as a variety of L. zebratum Gray. TAYLOR 1963: 1020 proposed to recognize Lygosoma zebratum BOULENGER 1887 as a subspecies of S. indicus.

Keys: DAREVSKY et al. (1983) provide a key to Vietnamese Sphenomorphus.

Types: Syntypes: CAS 18622 + 18627 [formosensis]; syntypes of L. zebratum im BMNH, ZMH, MSNG.

Distribution: Reports from Bangladesh actually represent Eutropis macularia (MAHONY et al. 2009). 
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