• Source: Nessia

Nessia is a genus of skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to Sri Lanka. Species in the genus Nessia are commonly known as snake skinks.




Species


The following nine species are recognized as being valid:

Nessia bipes M.A. Smith, 1935 – two-legged nessia
Nessia burtonii Gray, 1839 – Burton's nessia
Nessia deraniyagalai Taylor, 1950 – Deraniyagala's nessia
Nessia didactyla (Deraniyagala, 1934) – two-toed nessia
Nessia gansi Batuwita & Edirisinghe, 2017
Nessia hickanala Deraniyagala, 1940 – Hickanala nessia
Nessia layardi (Kelaart, 1853) – Layard's nessia
Nessia monodactyla (Gray, 1839) – one-toed nessia
Nessia sarasinorum (F. Müller, 1889) – Müller's nessia
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Nessia.




References






Further reading


Gray JE (1839). "Catalogue of the Slender-tongued Saurians, with Descriptions of many new Genera and Species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, First Series 2: 331–337. (Nessia, new genus, p. 336).
Smith MA (1935). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II.—Sauria. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 440 pp. + Plate I + 2 maps. (Genus Nessia, pp. 356–357; Nessia bipes, nomen novum, p. 359).
Taylor EH (1950). "Ceylonese Lizards of the Family Scincidae". University of Kansas Science Bulletin 33 (2): 481–518. (Genus Nessia, pp. 508–509; Nessia deraniyagalai, new species, pp. 516–518, Figures 8A, 8B).
Batuwita S, Edirisinghe U (2017). "Nessia gansi: a Second Three-toed Snake-Skink (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from Sri Lanka with the Designation of a Neotype for Nessia burtonii Gray". Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle «Grigore Antipa» 60 (1): 377–388.

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