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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
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: Sphenomorphinae
Genus: Asymblepharus
Species: A. alaicus – A. eremchenkoi – A. himalayanus – A. ladacensis – A. mahabharatus – A. nepalensis – A. tragbulense

Name

Asymblepharus
Vernacular names

Asymblepharus is a genus of skinks. The genus has been confused with and is very similar to Scincella.
Species

The following 10 species are recognized as being valid.[2]

Asymblepharus alaicus (Elpatjevsky, 1901)
Asymblepharus eremchenkoi Panfilov, 1999
Asymblepharus himalayanus (Günther, 1864) – Himalaya ground skink
Asymblepharus ladacensis (Günther, 1864) – Ladak ground skink
Asymblepharus mahabharatus Eremchenko, Shah & Panfilov, 1998 – Mahabharat ground skink
Asymblepharus medogensis Jiang, Wu, Guo, Li, & Che, 2020
Asymblepharus nepalensis Eremchenko & Helfenberger, 1998 – Nepal ground skink
Asymblepharus nyingchiensis Jiang, Wu, Guo, Wang, Ding, & Che, 2020
Asymblepharus sikimmensis (Blyth, 1854) Sikkim ground skink, bronzy-brown skink
Asymblepharus tragbulensis (Alcock, 1898)

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Asymblepharus.
References

"Asymblepharus ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/scincidae/sphenomorphinae.

"Asymblepharus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

Eremchenko VK, Shcherbak NN (1980). "[On the generic belonging of Scincidae (Reptilia: Sauria) of the USSR fauna]". Vestnik Zoologii 1980: 10–15. (in Russian).

Nota bene: The surname of the senior author, "Eremchenko", has also been transliterated as "Jeremčenko", "Jerjomtschenko", "Yeriomchenko", and "Yeriomtschenko"; and the surname of the junior author, "Shcherbak", as "Szczerbak".

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