Taxonavigation
Taxonavigation: Scincoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Scincinae
Genus: Nessia
Species: Nessia burtonii
Name
Neotype: NMSL WHT 157. [designated by Batuwita & Edirisinghe (2017: 383)]
Type locality: “unknown”, corrected by neotype designation as “Haycock Mountain, near Hiniduma, 06º20’N, 80º18’E, ~660 m (elevation).”
References
Primary references
- Gray, J.E. [1838] 1839. Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. Annals of Natural History Series 1, 2: 331–337. BHL
- Batuwita, S. & Edirisinghe, U. 2017. Nessia gansi: a Second Three-toed Snake-Skink (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from Sri Lanka with the Designation of a Neotype for Nessia burtonii Gray. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa" 60(1): 377–388. DOI: 10.1515/travmu-2017-0001 Reference page.
Links
- Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2022. Nessia burtonii. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 29 December 2017.