Leiolepis triploida Peters, 1971

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 253

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1

publication LSID

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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scientific name

Leiolepis triploida Peters, 1971
status

 

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Agamidae

Genus

Leiolepis

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