Leiolepis triploida Peters, 1971
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:78E23714-8973-4755-BC94-0A751D7D2B37 |
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7968188 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/88502B73-FF66-B88A-FF6B-44F57D130961 |
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Plazi |
scientific name |
Leiolepis triploida Peters, 1971 |
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Leiolepis triploida Peters, 1971 View in CoL — Non-native; Introduced.
Malaysian Butterfly Lizard
Singapore records.
“ Leiolepis ” —Hall, 1970: 1271.
Remarks. The MCZ has six specimens of L. triploida that were used by Hall (1970) to examine parthenogenesis in Leiolepis . Hall (1970) wrote that the specimens he “examined were imported from animal dealers in Bangkok ( Thailand) and Singapore by Richard R. Ross [and that] [t]he Singapore dealer told Ross that his Leiolepis came from near the Malaysia-Thailand border”. The specimens were also used by Peters (1971) to describe L. triploida as a new species. As the specimens are catalogued under Singapore at MCZ, we include L. triploida here for clarification. Leiolepis triploida is only known from northeastern Peninsular Malaysia ( Grismer 2011b).
LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.
Additional Singapore museum specimens. Singapore (no locality): MCZ.
Family Scincidae Oppel, 1811 (2 species)
Genus Eutropis Fitzinger, 1843 (1 species)
MCZ |
Museum of Comparative Zoology |
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