Kaestlea: A new genus of scincid lizards (Scincidae: Lygosominae) from the Western Ghats, south-western India
A lineage of lygosomines, allocated in the past variously to Scincella, Lygosoma, Leiolopisma and Asymblepharus, comprising five nominal species endemic to the Western Ghats of south-western India, is allocated to a new genus, Kaestlea.The genus includes the following species: Mocoa bilineata Gra...
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Centre for Herpetology, Madras Crocodile Bank Trust
2004
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/11935/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/11935/1/Kaestlea%20a%20new%20genus%20%28abstract%29.pdf |
| Summary: | A lineage of lygosomines, allocated in the past variously to Scincella,
Lygosoma, Leiolopisma and Asymblepharus, comprising five nominal species endemic to
the Western Ghats of south-western India, is allocated to a new genus, Kaestlea.The genus
includes the following species: Mocoa bilineata Gray, 1846; Mocoa travancorica Beddome,
1870; Lygosoma beddomii Boulenger, 1887; Lygosoma laterimaculatum Boulenger, 1887
and Lygosoma (Leiolopisma) travancoricum var. palnica Boettger, 1892. Lectotypes of all
recognised species are designated. The relationships of these species with others
lygosomine skinks of Asia and America (including the genera Scincella, Sphenomorphus
and Asymblepharus) are discussed. Diagnoses and a key to the species of Kaestlea are
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