Tytthoscincus butleri

Tytthoscincus butleri
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Tytthoscincus
Species:	T. butleri
Binomial name
Tytthoscincus butleri (Boulenger, 1912)
Synonyms [2]
Lygosoma butleri Boulenger, 1912 Sphenomorphus butleri — Grismer, 2006 Sphenomorphus langkawiensis Grismer, 2008 Tytthoscincus butleri — Grismer et al., 2016

Tytthoscincus butleri, also known commonly as Butler's forest skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is native to Malaysia and Thailand. ^[2]

Etymology

The specific name, butleri, is in honor of British zoologist Arthur Lennox Butler. ^[3]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of T. butleri is forest. ^[1]

Reproduction

T. butleri is oviparous. The eggs hatch in September. ^[1]

References

1. Grismer, L. [in French]; Quah, E. (2018). "Tytthoscincus butleri ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018 e.T102349507A102349532. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T102349507A102349532.en . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
2. Tytthoscincus butleri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 13 October 2020.
3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. (Sphenomorphus butleri, p. 44).

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1912). A Vertebrate Fauna of the Malay Peninsula from the Isthmus of Kra to Singapore including the Adjacent Islands. Reptilia and Batrachia. London, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore: Government of the Federated Malay States. (Taylor & Francis, printers). xiii + 294 pp. (Lygosoma butleri, new species, p. 91).
• Grismer LL, Muin MA, Wood PL Jr, Anuar S, Linkem CW (2016). "The transfer of two clades of Malaysian Sphenomorphus Fitzinger (Squamata: Scincidae) into the genus Tytthoscincus Linkem, Diesmos, & Brown and the description of a new Malaysian swamp-dwelling species". Zootaxa4092 (2): 231–242. (Tytthoscincus butleri, new combination).