| Tree skinks | |
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| Dasia johnsinghi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Mabuyinae |
| Genus: | Dasia Gray, 1839 |
Dasia is a genus of lizards, commonly known as tree skinks or dasias, in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to Asia.
Species
The genus Dasia contains ten species which are recognized as being valid.
- Dasia griffini Taylor, 1915 – Griffin's dasia
- Dasia grisea (Gray, 1845) – big tree skink, grey dasia, grey tree skink
- Dasia haliana (Nevill in 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. New Series (3). Field Museum of Natural History: 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". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 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).
- [REDACTED] Data related to Dasia at Wikispecies
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| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Dasia | |