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Sphenomorphus tritaeniatus (BOURRET, 1937)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymLygosoma tritaeniatum BOURRET 1937: 14
Sphenomorphus tritaeniatus — BOBROV 1993
Sphenomorphus tritaeniatus — NGUYEN et al. 2009
Sphenomorphus tritaeniatus —PHAM et al. 2026 
DistributionVietnam (Tam Dao and Cuc Phuong National Park (Darevsky et al., 1986; Bobrov, 1993; BOBROV, pers. comm.)

Type locality: Tam Dao  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 1948.0055 
Diagnosis 
CommentDAREVSKY et al. (1983) provide a key to Vietnamese Sphenomorphus.

Abundance: Rare. 
EtymologyPresumably from the Latin tres (three) plus taenia (stripe), in reference to the three lines mentioned in the description. 
References
  • Bobrov V.V., Semenov D.V. 2008. Lizards of Vietnam [in Russian]. Moscow, 236 pp.
  • Bobrov, V.V. 1993. Zoogeographic Analysis of the Lizard Fauna (Reptilia, Sauria) of Vietnam. Zool Zh 72 (8): 70-79
  • Bobrov, Vladimir V. 1993. A report on a collection of lizards (Reptilia, Sauria) from Son La Province (Northern Vietnam). Journal of Bengal Natural History Society new ser., 12 (1): 5-10
  • Bourret,R. 1937. Notes herpetologiques sur l'Indochine francaise. XII. Les lezards de la collection du Laboratoire des Sciences Naturelles de l'Universite. Descriptions de cinq especes nouvelles. XIII. Serpents... Bull. Gén. Instr. Pub. Hanoi (May 1937): 1-22; 23-39
  • Darevsky I S; Nguyen Van Sang, 1983. New and little known lizard species from Vietnam [in Russian]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 62 (12): 1827-1837
  • Nguyen, S.V., Ho, C.T. and Nguyen, T.Q. 2009. Herpetofauna of Vietnam. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 768 pp.
  • Nguyen, Truong Quang; Andreas Schmitz, Tao Thien Nguyen, Nikolai L. Orlov, Wolfgang Böhme, and Thomas Ziegler 2011. Review of the Genus Sphenomorphus Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) in Vietnam, with Description of a New Species from Northern Vietnam and Southern China and the First Record of Sphenomorphus mimicus Taylor, 1962 from Vietnam. Journal of Herpetology 45 (2): 145-154.
  • Pham AV, Pham CT, Ong AV, Le MD, Ziegler T, Nguyen TQ 2026. Sphenomorphus puhoatensis (Squamata, Scincidae), a new skink from Nghe An Province, Vietnam. ZooKeys 1279: 167-186 - get paper here
 
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