Tropidophorus

Tropidophorus
T. berdmorei, Figure 3., top
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Sauria
Infraorder:	Scincomorpha
Family:	Scincidae
Subfamily:	Lygosominae
Genus:	Tropidophorus A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839
Type species
T. cocincinensis
Species
See text.

Tropidophorus is a genus of semiaquatic lizards in the skink family (Scincidae), found in Indochina, Borneo, Sulawesi, and the Philippines.

Species

The following 28 species are recognized:^[1]

• Tropidophorus assamensis Annandale, 1912
• Tropidophorus baconi Hikida, Riyanto & Ota, 2003
• Tropidophorus baviensis Bourret, 1939
• Tropidophorus beccarii W. Peters, 1871
• Tropidophorus berdmorei (Blyth, 1853)
• Tropidophorus boehmei T.Q. Nguyen et al., 2010
• Tropidophorus brookei (Gray, 1845)
• Tropidophorus cocincinensis A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839
• Tropidophorus davaoensis Bacon, 1980
• Tropidophorus grayi Günther, 1861, Gray's water skink
• Tropidophorus guangxiensis Y. Wen, 1992
• Tropidophorus hainanus M.A. Smith, 1923
• Tropidophorus hangnam Chuaynkern et al., 2005
• Tropidophorus iniquus Lidth de Jeude, 1905
• Tropidophorus laotus M.A. Smith, 1923
• Tropidophorus latiscutatus Hikida et al., 2002
• Tropidophorus matsuii Hikida et al., 2002
• Tropidophorus microlepis Günther, 1861
• Tropidophorus micropus Lidth de Jeude, 1905
• Tropidophorus misaminius Stejneger, 1908
• Tropidophorus mocquardi Boulenger, 1894
• Tropidophorus murphyi Hikida et al., 2002
• Tropidophorus noggei T. Ziegler et al., 2005
• Tropidophorus partelloi Stejneger, 1910
• Tropidophorus perplexus Barbour, 1921
• Tropidophorus robinsoni M.A. Smith, 1919
• Tropidophorus sinicus Boettger, 1886
• Tropidophorus thai M.A. Smith, 1919

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Tropidophorus.

References

1. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

• Duméril AMC, Bibron G. 1839. Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome cinquième [Volume 5]. Paris: Roret. viii + 854 pp. (Tropidophorus, new genus, pp. 554–556).
• Honda M, Ota H, Murphy RW, Hikida T. (2006). "Phylogeny and biogeography of water skinks of the genus Tropidophorus (Reptilia: Scincidae): a molecular approach" (PDF). Zoologica Scripta 35 (1): 85–95. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00215.x.