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

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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)