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]
| Tree skinks | |
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| Dasia johnsinghi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Mabuyinae |
| Genus: | Dasia Gray, 1839 |
Species edit
The genus Dasia contains ten species which are recognized as being valid.[3]
- Dasia griffini Taylor, 1915 – Griffin's dasia
- Dasia grisea (Gray, 1845) – big tree skink, grey dasia, grey tree skink
- Dasia haliana (Nevill in Haly & Nevill, 1887) – Ceylonese dasia
- Dasia johnsinghi Harikrishnan et al., 2012 – barred tree skink
- Dasia nicobarensis Biswas & Sanyal, 1977 – Nicobar dasia, Nicobar tree skink
- Dasia olivacea Gray, 1839 – olive dasia, olive tree skink
- Dasia semicincta (W. Peters, 1867) – Peters's dasia
- Dasia subcaerulea (Boulenger, 1891) – Boulenger's dasia, Boulenger's tree skink
- Dasia vittata (Edeling, 1865) – Borneo skink, striped tree skink
- Dasia vyneri (Shelford, 1905) – Shelford's skink
References edit
- ^ Wrobel, Murray (2004). Elsevier's Dictionary of Reptiles: in Latin, English, German, French and Italian. Amsterdam: Elsevier. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-444-51499-8.
- ^ Inger, Robert F.; Brown, Walter C. (1980). "Species of the Scincid Genus Dasia Gray". Fieldiana Zoology. New Series (3). Field Museum of Natural History: 1–11. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.3190. ISSN 0015-0754.
- ^ Genus Dasia at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading edit
- 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).
Data related to Dasia at Wikispecies
