Bowring’s Supple Skink

About the Bowring’s Supple Skink

Subdoluseps bowringii, also known commonly as Bowring's supple skink, Bowring's writhing skink, and the Christmas Island grass-skink, is a species of lizard in the subfamily Lygosominae of the family Scincidae. The species is native to Southeast Asia.

The specific name, bowringii, is in honor of either John Charles Bowring, who was a British amateur naturalist and businessman in Hong Kong, or his father John Bowring, who was a British diplomat and a governor of Hong Kong.

West Malaysia, Pulau Tioman, Johor Pulau Besar, Pulau Sibu; India (Andaman Islands), Philippines (Sulu Archipelago), Indonesia (Borneo, Sumatra ?, Java, Sulawesi), China (Hong Kong ), Singapore, India, Bangladesh, Indochina west to Myanmar (= Burma), Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia,

Australia (Cook Islands and Christmas Island). Type locality: Hong Kong. Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. III Scincidae (Second ed.). London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). (Lygosoma bowringii, pp. 308–309 + Plate XXIII, figure 3)

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