Dasia

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
Genus: Dasia
Species (9): D. griffini – D. grisea – D. haliana – D. johnsinghi – D. nicobarensis – D. olivacea – D. semicincta – D. smaragdina – D. subcaerulea
Name

Dasia Gray, 1839

References

Harikrishnan, S. et al. 2012: Phylogeography of Dasia Gray, 1830 (Reptilia: Scincidae), with the description of a new species from southern India. Zootaxa 3233: 37–51. Preview Reference page.

Dasia is a genus of lizards, commonly known as tree skinks or dasias, in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to Asia.[1][2]
Species

The genus Dasia contains ten species which are recognized as being valid.[3]

Dasia griffini Taylor, 1915 – Griffin's dasia
Dasia grisea (Gray, 1845) – big tree skink, grey dasia, grey tree skink
Dasia haliana (Haly & Nevill, 1887) – Ceylonese dasia
Dasia johnsinghi Harikrishnan et al., 2012 – barred tree skink
Dasia nicobarensis Biswas & Sanyal, 1977 – Nicobar dasia, Nicobar tree skink
Dasia olivacea Gray, 1839 – olive dasia, olive tree skink
Dasia semicincta (W. Peters, 1867) – Peters's dasia
Dasia subcaerulea (Boulenger, 1891) – Boulenger's dasia, Boulenger's tree skink
Dasia vittata (Edeling, 1865) – Borneo skink, striped tree skink
Dasia vyneri (Shelford, 1905) – Shelford's skink

References

Wrobel, Murray (2004). Elsevier's Dictionary of Reptiles: in Latin, English, German, French and Italian. Amsterdam: Elsevier. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-444-51499-8.
Inger, Robert F.; Brown, Walter C. (1980). "Species of the Scincid Genus Dasia Gray". Fieldiana Zoology. Field Museum of Natural History. New Series (3): 1–11. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.3190. ISSN 0015-0754.

Genus Dasia at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

Gray JE (1839). "Catalogue of the Slender-tongued Saurians, with Descriptions of many new Genera and Species". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [First Series] 2: 331–337. (Dasia, new genus, p. 331; D. olivacea, new species, p. 331).
Harikrishnan S, Vasudevan K, De Silva A, Deepak V, Kar NB, Naniwadekar R, Lalremruata A, Prasoona LR, Aggarwal RK (2012). "Phylogeography of Dasia Gray, 1830 (Reptilia: Scincidae), with the description of a new species from southern India". Zootaxa 3233: 37–51. Preview. (Dasia johnsinghi, new species).