Subdoluseps bowringii
{{Short description|Species of lizard}}
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| image = Lygosoma bowringii, Bowring's supple skink (27861339871).jpg
| image_caption = Subdoluseps bowringii
from Petchaburi Province, Thailand
| genus = Subdoluseps
| species = bowringii
| authority = (Günther, 1864)
| synonyms =*Eumeces bowringii
{{small|Günther, 1864}}
- Euprepes punctatolineatus
{{small|W. Peters, 1871}}
(ex errore) - Euprepes punctatostriatus
{{small|W. Peters, 1871}} - Lygosoma bowringii
{{small|— Boulenger, 1887}} - Lygosoma comotti
{{small|Boulenger, 1887}} - Lygosoma whiteheadi
{{small|Mocquard, 1890}} - Riopa bowringii
{{small|— Taylor, 1922}} - Mochlus bowringii
{{small|— Ebenhard & Sjögren, 1984}} - Lygosoma bowringii
{{small|— Cogger, 1994}} - Subdoluseps bowringii
{{small|— Freitas et al., 2019}}
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Subdoluseps bowringii, also known commonly as Bowring's supple skink, Bowring's writhing skink, and the Christmas Island grass-skink, is a species of lizard in the subfamily Lygosominae of the family Scincidae. The species is native to Southeast Asia.
Etymology
The specific name, bowringii, is in honor of either John Charles Bowring, who was a British amateur naturalist and businessman in Hong Kong, or his father John Bowring, who was a British diplomat and a governor of Hong Kong.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Lygosoma bowringii, p. 36).
Geographic range
;West Malaysia, Pulau Tioman, Johor: Pulau Besar, Pulau Sibu; India (Andaman Islands),
;Philippines (Sulu Archipelago),
;Indonesia (Borneo, Sumatra ?, Java, Sulawesi),
;China (Hong Kong ), Singapore, India, Bangladesh,https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/195297/2377107
;Indochina west to Myanmar (= Burma), Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia,
;Australia (Cook Islands and Christmas Island).https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/195297/2377107
Type locality: Hong Kong.
References
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Further reading
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- Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III ... Scincidae .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I–XL. (Lygosoma bowringii, pp. 308–309 + Plate XXIII, figure 3).
- Boulenger GA (1887). "An account of the Scincoid Lizards collected from Burma for the Genoa Civic Museum by Messrs. G.B. Comotto and L. Fea". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Series 2, 4: 618–624. (Lygosoma comotti, new species, p. 622).
- Freitas ES, Datta-Roy A, Karanth P, Grismer LL, Siler CD (2019). "Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for African, Asian and Indian supple and writhing skinks (Scincidae: Lygosominae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 186 (4): 1067–1096. (Subdoluseps bowringii, new combination).
- Günther A (1864). The Reptiles of British India. London: The Ray Society. (Taylor & Francis, printers). xxvii + 452 pp. + Plates I-XXVI. (Eumeces bowringii, new species, p. 91).
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Category:Reptiles of Southeast Asia
Category:Reptiles of the Philippines
Category:Fauna of Christmas Island
Category:Reptiles described in 1864
Category:Taxa named by Albert Günther
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