Synonyms

• Norbea Gray, 1845: 72
  • Type species: Norbea brookei Gray, 1845, by monotypy.
• Aspris Blyth, 1853: 650
  • Type species: Aspris berdmorei Blyth, 1853, by monotypy.
• Amphixestus Peters, 1871: 573 [as subgenus]
  • Type species: Tropidophorus (Amphixestus) beccarii Peters, 1871, by monotypy.
• Enoplosaurus Sauvage, 1879: 211
  • Type species: Enoplosaurus insignis Sauvage, 1879, by monotypy.

Primary references

• Duméril, A.M.C. & Bibron, G. 1839. Erpétologie Générale on Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Tome cinquième. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret: Paris. VIII + 854 pp. BHL Reference page. 

• Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees of die British Museum/Edward Newman: London. xxvii + 289 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Blyth, E. 1853. Notices and descriptions of various reptiles, new or little-known. Part I. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 22: 639–655. BHL
• Peters, W. 1871. Über neue Reptilien aus Ostafrika und Sarawak (Borneo), vorzüglich aus der Sammlung des Hrn. Marquis J. Doria zu Genua. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1871: 566–581. BHL
• Sauvage, H.E. 1879. Sur un Chalcidien de genre nouveau, voisin du Tribolonote. Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7) 3: 210–212. BHL

Additional references

• Hikida, T., Orlov, N.L., Nabhitabhata, J. & Ota, H. 2002. Three New Depressed-bodied Water Skinks of the Genus Tropidophorus (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from Thailand and Vietnam. Current Herpetology 21(1): 9–23. DOI: 10.5358/hsj.21.9 Reference page. 

• Hikida, T., Riyanto, A. & Ota, H. 2003. A new water skink of the genus Tropidophorus (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Current Herpetology 22(1): 29–36. DOI: 10.5358/hsj.22.29 Reference page. 

• Greer, A.E. & Biswas, S. 2004. A generic diagnosis for the southeast Asian scincid lizard genus Tropidophorus Duméril and Bibron, 1839 with some additional comments on its morphology and distribution. Journal of Herpetology 38(3): 426–430. DOI: 10.1670/203-03N Reference page. 

• Chuaynkern, Y., Nabhitabhata, J., Inthara, C., Kamsook, M. & Somsri, K. 2005. A New Species of the Water Skink Tropidophorus (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from Northeast Thailand. The Thailand Natural History Museum Journal 1(2): 165–176. PDF Reference page. 

• Ziegler, T., Vu, N.T. & Bui, N.T. 2005. A new water skink of the genus Tropidophorus from the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, central Vietnam (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae). Salamandra 41(3): 137–146. PDF Reference page. 

• Honda, M., Ota, H., Murphy, R.W. & Hikida, T. 2006. Phylogeny and biogeography of water skinks of the genus Tropidophorus (Reptilia: Scincidae): a molecular approach. Zoologica Scripta 35(1): 85–95. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00215.x Reference page. 

• Nguyen, T.Q., Nguyen, T.T., Schmitz, A., Orlov, N.L. & Ziegler, T. 2010. A new species of the genus Tropidophorus Duméril & Bibron, 1839 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) from Vietnam. Zootaxa 2439: 53–68. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2439.1.4 Reference page. 

• Pyron, R.A., Burbrink, F.T. & Wiens, J.J. 2013. A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13: 93. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-93 Reference page. 

• Pui, Y.M., Karin, B.R., Bauer, A.M. & Das, I. 2017. A new species of Tropidophorus Duméril & Bibron, 1839 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) from Sarawak, East Malaysia (Borneo). Zootaxa 4258(6): 539–550. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4258.6.3 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2022. Tropidophorus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 20 August 2020.