Skinks of Eastern and North-Eastern India

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Methodology. 3. Study area. 4. Species accounts. 5. Genus Asymblepharus: Sikkimese rock Skink. 6. Genus Lygosoma: i. Common spotted supple skink. ii. White spotted supple skink. 7. Genus Eutropis: i. Common grass skink. ii. Four-lined grass skink. iii. Bronze grass skink. iv. Many-lined grass skink. v. Striped grass skink. vi. Three-lined grass skink. vii. Beddome’s grass skink. viii. Seashore or sand skink. 8. Genus Sphenomorphus: i. Spotted litter skink. ii. Himalayan litter skink. iii. Medog skink. iv. Eyelid-less litter skink. 9. Genus Tropidophorus: North-eastern water skink. 10. Genus Barkudia: Barkuda limbless skink. 11. Genus sepsophis: Spotted Eastern ghats limbless skink. Acknowledgement. References.

In this volume the authors have described all 18 species of skink found in Eastern and North-eastern India in a single format, and also catalogued all the skink specimens from this vast area, present in the collections of the Zoological Survey India, Kolkata. The authors have also tried to include whatever is known about their live colour, habits, habitat, food, breeding behavior, distribution and status so that researchers, students and the interested layman can know something about these interesting lizards they see everyday around their homes.