Tytthoscincus martae
| Tytthoscincus martae | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Tytthoscincus |
| Species: | T. martae
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| Binomial name | |
| Tytthoscincus martae Grismer, Wood, Quah, Anuar, Ngadi, Mohd-Izam, & Ahmad, 2017
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Tytthoscincus martae, the Hindu temple forest skink, is a species of skink. It is a leaf litter generalist[1] endemic to Malaysia.[2]
Its common name refers to a Hindu temple 1.2 km south of Fraser's Hill. The species name 'martae' honours American herpetologist Marta S. Grismer for her fieldwork in Southeast Asia and Latin America and work generating morphological datasets.[2]
References
- ^ Grismer, L Lee; Wood, Perry L; Quah, Evan S H; Anuar, Shahrul; Ngadi, Ehwan B; Izam, Nur Amalina Mohd; Ahmad, Norhayati (28 June 2018). "Systematics, ecomorphology, cryptic speciation and biogeography of the lizard genus Tytthoscincus Linkem, Diesmos & Brown (Squamata: Scincidae) from the sky-island archipelago of Peninsular Malaysia". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 183 (3): 635–671. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx067.
- ^ a b Tytthoscincus martae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 9 January 2025.