Nessia burtonii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Scincomorpha Superfamilia: Scincoidea

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Scincinae
Genus: Nessia
Species: Nessia burtonii

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).”

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.

English: Burton's Nessia

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