''Tytthoscincus butleri'', also known
commonly as Butler's forest skink, is a
species
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of
lizard
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in the
family
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Scincidae. The species is native to
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...
and
Thailand
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.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''butleri'', is in honor of British zoologist
Arthur Lennox Butler
Arthur Lennox Butler (22 February 1873 – 29 December 1939) was a British naturalist. Born in Karachi, he became a curator of a natural history museum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He later became the superintendent of a game preserve in Sudan be ...
.
[ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Sphenomorphus butleri'', p. 44).]
Habitat
The preferred natural
habitat
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of ''T. butleri'' is
forest
A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' ...
.
Reproduction
''T. butleri'' is
oviparous
Oviparous animals are animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, most reptiles, and all pterosaurs, dinosaurs (including birds), and ...
. The eggs hatch in September.
References
Further reading
*
Boulenger GA (1912). ''A Vertebrate Fauna of the Malay Peninsula from the Isthmus of Kra to Singapore including the Adjacent Islands. Reptilia and Batrachia.'' London, Kuala Lampur, and Singapore: Government of the Federated Malay States. (Taylor & Francis, printers). xiii + 294 pp. (''Lygosoma butleri'', new species, p. 91).
*
Grismer LL,
Muin MA,
Wood PL Jr,
Anuar S,
Linkem CW (2016). "The transfer of two clades of Malaysian ''Sphenomorphus''
Fitzinger (Squamata: Scincidae) into the genus ''Tytthoscincus'' Linkem,
Diesmos, &
Brown
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and the description of a new Malaysian swamp-dwelling species". ''Zootaxa'' 4092 (2): 231–242. (''Tytthoscincus butleri'', new combination).
butleri
Endemic fauna of Malaysia
Reptiles of Malaysia
Reptiles described in 1912
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
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