Dasia (lizard) explained

Dasia is a genus of lizards, commonly known as tree skinks or dasias, in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to Asia.^{[1] [2]}

Species

The genus Dasia contains ten species which are recognized as being valid.^[3]

• Dasia griffini – Griffin's dasia
• Dasia grisea – big tree skink, grey dasia, grey tree skink
• Dasia haliana – Ceylonese dasia
• Dasia johnsinghi – barred tree skink
• Dasia nicobarensis – Nicobar dasia, Nicobar tree skink
• Dasia olivacea – olive dasia, olive tree skink
• Dasia semicincta – Peters's dasia
• Dasia subcaerulea – Boulenger's dasia, Boulenger's tree skink
• Dasia vittata – Borneo skink, striped tree skink
• Dasia vyneri – Shelford's skink

Further reading

• Gray JE (1839). "Catalogue of the Slender-tongued Saurians, with Descriptions of many new Genera and Species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, [''First Series''] 2: 331–337. (Dasia, new genus, p. 331; D. olivacea, new species, p. 331).
• Harikrishnan S, Vasudevan K, De Silva A, Deepak V, Kar NB, Naniwadekar R, Lalremruata A, Prasoona LR, Aggarwal RK (2012). "Phylogeography of Dasia Gray, 1830 (Reptilia: Scincidae), with the description of a new species from southern India". Zootaxa 3233: 37–51. Preview. (Dasia johnsinghi, new species).

Notes and References

1. Book: Wrobel, Murray. Elsevier's Dictionary of Reptiles: in Latin, English, German, French and Italian. Amsterdam. Elsevier. 2004. 265. 978-0-444-51499-8.
2. Inger, Robert F.. Robert F. Inger. Brown, Walter C.. species:Walter Creighton Brown. 1980. Species of the Scincid Genus Dasia Gray. Fieldiana Zoology. New Series. 3. 1 - 11. Field Museum of Natural History. 0015-0754. 10.5962/bhl.title.3190. free.
3. . www.reptile-database.org.