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Indian forest skink Collection Image, Figure 1, Total 8 Figures
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Indian forest skink Collection Image, Figure 4, Total 8 Figures
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Indian forest skink
  • species_info
    • english title:Indian forest skink
    • scientific_name:Sphenomorphus indicus
    • DIVISION:Chordata
    • subphylum:Vertebrata
    • class:Reptilia
    • subclass:Eureptilia
    • orders:Squamata
    • suborder:Lacertilia
    • family:Scincidae
    • subfamily:Lygosomitinae
    • genus:Sphenomorphus
    • species:indicus
    • species_author:Gray
    • species_pub_year:1853
    • common name
      • common name english:Brown forest skink
  • collection_content
    • collection_locality
      • country_id:tw
      • country_en:Republic of China
      • subdivision_1_en:Taiwan Province
      • subdivision_2_en:Yilan County
      • subdvision_3_en:Toucheng Township
      • locality_en:Tanbian
    • collection_info
      • collection_date:1997/11/10
      • Collection Date:1997/11/10
      • quantity:1
    • collection_feature
      • S-V length:43  mm
      • Tail length:67  mm
      • SEX:J
    • collection_record
      • catalog no:TMRL0445
      • CAT_NO:RE.0687
      • :2000/11/30
  • gdesc_info
    • GDESC:  吻肛長最可達12公分左右,尾長約為吻肛長的1.5~1.9倍;全身鱗片光滑,,下眼瞼覆滿小鱗片,第4趾下有皮瓣19~21片,大形肛前鱗2片。體背面褐色,上雜有許多黑點,側面有一條由吻端到尾基部的黑色寬縱紋,寬縱紋下的體側以褐黃色調為底,散有許多黑色斑點,腹面為帶黃的白色,幼體的尾巴末端為暗紅色。
        分布區域東起臺灣,西至中國大陸的西藏東部,北達中國大陸河南、陝西、甘肅,南到印度北部、中南半島及馬來半島。在臺灣廣泛分布於全島海拔1,500公尺以下的地區。喜歡較潮濕的樹林邊緣或底層的草石區;日行性,以昆蟲等小型節肢動物為食,尾部易自割,卵生,產卵期約在3~11月,每窩可產5~7個卵。

      (林俊聰撰)