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Tropidoscincus

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Tropidoscincus is a genus of skink. They are all endemic to New Caledonia.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Tropidoscincus is referenced by 5 other articles, and connects out to Animalia, New Caledonia and Reptilia.

Vinony files it under Lizard genera, Taxa named by José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage and Tropidoscincus.

Its subject is documented across 12 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassSquamata
  4. FamilyScincidae
Observations recorded155

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
18
With media
1
Family
Scincidae
Collections
CAS
Recorded in
France

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Lygosominae
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Commons category
Tropidoscincus
taxon name
Tropidoscincus
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Tropidoscincus
endemic to
New Caledonia
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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Classification
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Tropidoscincus is a genus of skink. They are all endemic to New Caledonia.

==Classification== Tropidoscincus aubrianus Bocage, 1873 – Aubrey's whiptailed skink Tropidoscincus boreus Sadlier & Bauer, 2000 – northern whiptailed skink Tropidoscincus variabilis (Bavay, 1869) – southern whiptailed skink

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tropidoscincus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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