Tropidophorus

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: Tropidophorus
Species (29): T. assamensis – T. baconi – T. baviensis – T. beccarii – T. berdmorei – T. boehmei – T. brookei – T. cocincinensis – T. davaoensis – T. grayi – T. guangxiensis – T. hainanus – T. hangnam – T. iniquus – T. laotus – T. latiscutatus – T. matsuii – T. microlepis – T. micropus – T. misaminius – T. mocquardii – T. murphyi – T. noggei – T. partelloi – T. perplexus – T. robinsoni – T. sebi – T. sinicus – T. thai
Name

Tropidophorus Duméril & Bibron, 1839: 554

Type species: Tropidophorus cocincinensis Duméril & Bibron, 1839, by monotypy.

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.

References
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 Open access 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 Open access 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 Paywall 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 Paywall 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 Paywall 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 Open access 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 Paywall Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2021. Tropidophorus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 20 August 2020.

Vernacular names
English: Water Skinks

Tropidophorus is a genus of semiaquatic lizards in the skink family (Scincidae), found in Indochina, Borneo, Sulawesi, and the Philippines. They are sometimes known as water skinks[1] or waterside skinks.[2]

Species

The following 29 species are recognized:[3]

Tropidophorus assamensis Annandale, 1912 – north-eastern water skink
Tropidophorus baconi Hikida, Riyanto & Ota, 2003
Tropidophorus baviensis Bourret, 1939 – Bavi water skink, Bavay's keeled skink
Tropidophorus beccarii W. Peters, 1871 – Beccari's keeled skink
Tropidophorus berdmorei (Blyth, 1853) – Berdmore's water skink
Tropidophorus boehmei T.Q. Nguyen et al., 2010 – Boehme's water skink
Tropidophorus brookei (Gray, 1845) – Brook's keeled skink
Tropidophorus cocincinensis A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839 – Cochinchinese water skink
Tropidophorus davaoensis Bacon, 1980 – Davao waterside skink
Tropidophorus grayi Günther, 1861 – Gray's water skink,[4] spiny waterside skink, Gray's keeled skink
Tropidophorus guangxiensis Y. Wen, 1992
Tropidophorus hainanus M.A. Smith, 1923 – Hainan water skink
Tropidophorus hangnam Chuaynkern et al., 2005
Tropidophorus iniquus Lidth de Jeude, 1905
Tropidophorus laotus M.A. Smith, 1923 – Laotian water skink, Laotian keeled skink
Tropidophorus latiscutatus Hikida et al., 2002
Tropidophorus matsuii Hikida et al., 2002
Tropidophorus microlepis Günther, 1861 – small-scaled water skink
Tropidophorus micropus Lidth de Jeude, 1905
Tropidophorus misaminius Stejneger, 1908 – Misamis waterside skink
Tropidophorus mocquardii Boulenger, 1894
Tropidophorus murphyi Hikida et al., 2002 – Murphy’s water skink
Tropidophorus noggei T. Ziegler et al., 2005 – Nogge’s water skink
Tropidophorus partelloi Stejneger, 1910 – Partello's waterside skink
Tropidophorus perplexus Barbour, 1921
Tropidophorus robinsoni M.A. Smith, 1919 – Robinson's water skink, Robinson's keeled skink
Tropidophorus sebi Pui, Karin, Bauer, & Das, 2017 – Baleh water skink
Tropidophorus sinicus Boettger, 1886 – Chinese water skink
Tropidophorus thai M.A. Smith, 1919 Thai water skink, Thai stream skink

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

Das I (2010). A Field Guide to the Reptiles of South-East Asia. London: New Holland. 376 pp. ISBN 978-1-84773-347-4.
See IUCN search results for Tropidophorus
Genus Tropidophorus at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Tropidophorus grayi, p. 107; T. mocquardi, p. 181).