Leptoseps osellai

{{Short description|Species of lizard}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Cota, M. |author2=Sumontha, M. |date=2018 |title=Leptoseps osellai |volume=2018 |page=e.T104763521A104853665 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T104763521A104853665.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| genus = Leptoseps

| species = osellai

| authority = (Böhme, 1981)

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Leptoseps osellai, known as Osella's skink, is a species of skink found in Thailand.{{NRDB species|genus=Leptoseps|species=osellai|accessdate=14 June 2020}}

Etymology

The specific name osellai is in honor of Italian entomologist Giuseppe Osella.{{cite book |last1=Beolens |first1=Bo |last2=Watkins |first2=Michael |last3=Grayson |first3=Michael |year=2011 |title=The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore |isbn=978-1-4214-0135-5 |pages=196, 209}}

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