''Tropidophorus hainanus'', the Hainan water skink, is a species of

skink Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae, a family in the infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different taxonomic genera, the family Scincidae is one of the most diverse families of lizards. Ski ...

found in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

and Vietnam.

References

hainanus Reptiles of China Reptiles of Vietnam Reptiles described in 1923 Taxa named by Malcolm Arthur Smith {{Lygosominae-stub