Subdoluseps

Subdoluseps
Subdoluseps bowringii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Subfamily:	Lygosominae
Genus:	Subdoluseps Freitas, Datta-Roy, Karanth, L. Grismer & Siler, 2019[1]

Subdoluseps, also known commonly as supple skinks and writhing skinks, is a genus of lizards in the subfamily Lygosominae of the family Scincidae. Member species were all previously assigned to the genus Lygosoma.

Species

The following species are recognized as being valid.^[2]

• Subdoluseps bowringii (Günther, 1864) – Christmas Island grass skink, Bowring's supple skink
• Subdoluseps frontoparietalis (Taylor, 1962) – Taylor's writhing skink, pygmy supple skink
• Subdoluseps herberti (M.A. Smith, 1916) – Herbert's supple skink
• Subdoluseps malayana L. Grismer, Dzukafly, Muin, Quah, Karin, Anuar & Freitas, 2019 – Malaysian supple skink
• Subdoluseps nilgiriensis Ganesh, Srikanthan, Ghosh, Adhikari, S. Kumar & Datta-Roy, 2021 – Nilgiri gracile skink
• Subdoluseps pruthi (Sharma, 1977) – Pruthi's skink
• Subdoluseps samajaya (Karin, Freitas, Shonleben, L. Grismer, Bauer & Das, 2018)
• Subdoluseps vietnamensis M.V. Le, V.D.H. Nguyen, Phan, Rujirawan, Aowphol, Vo, R. Murphy & S.N. Nguyen, 2021 – Vietnam agile skink

References

1. Freitas ES, Datta-Roy A, Karanth K, Grismer LL, Siler CD (2019). "Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for African, Asian and Indian supple and writhing skinks (Scincide: Lygosominae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 186 (4): 1067–1096. (Subdoluseps, new genus).
2. Genus Subdoluseps at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.