Lygosoma
Creators: name: Geissler, Peter
name: Hartmann, Timo
name: Neang, Thy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Scincidae
Lygosoma

description: Key to the species of Lygosoma in mainland Southeast Asia
1 Supranasals separated from each other................................................................... 2
- Supranasals in contact medially.......................................................................... 5
2 Supranasals partly or completely fused with nasals........................................................... 3
- Supranasals not fused with nasals; midbody scales in 22 rows; fontoparietals paired; supralabials five.................................................................................................... L. veunsaiensis sp. nov.
3 Supranasals completely fused with nasals; frontoparietal single; midbody scales in 24–28 rows; paravertebral scales 109–116.......................................................................................... L. quadrupes
- Supranasals and nasals only fused anterior to nostrils......................................................... 4
4 Paravertebral scales 88–98; dark transverse band present between the ears............................. L. isodactylum
- Paravertebral scales 63; head without such transverse band........................................... L. koratense
5 Deep groove from below the eye to nostril present; midbody scales in 38–40 rows........................ L. bampfyldei
- Deep groove from below the eye to nostril absent........................................................... 6
6 Lower eyelid scaly.................................................................................... 9
- Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disc............................................................. 7
7 Midbody scales in 22 rows; subdigital lamellae on fourth toe 6–9...................................... L. anguinum
- Midbody scales in 24–28 rows........................................................................... 8
8 92–95 paravertebral scales........................................................................ L. popae
- 72–76 paravertebral scales...................................................................... L. punctata
9 Frontoparietals paired................................................................................. 13
- Frontoparietal single................................................................................. 10
10 Supralabials nine; body bearing 22–32 dark transverse bands....................................... L. haroldyoungi
- Supralabials seven; body without dark transverse bands..................................................... 11
11 Midbody scales in more than 28 rows..................................................................... 12
- Midbody scales in 22 rows; subdigital lamellae on fourth toe 8–10.................................... L. lineolatum
12 Paravertebral scales 56–60; lamellae on fourth toe 13............................................ L. frontoparietale
- Paravertebral scales 107–115; lamellae on fourth toe six or seven......................................... L. angeli
13 Midbody scales in 26–32 rows......................................................................... 14
- Midbody scales in 36–40 rows; paravertebral scales 78–86; 11–15 lamellae on fourth toe................ L. corpulentum
14 Paravertebral scales 55–59............................................................................. 16
- Paravertebral scales 63–72............................................................................. 15
15 Midbody scales in 26–28 rows; each scale bearing a black spot; flanks with white spots.................. L. albopunctata
- Midbody scales in 32 rows; paravertebral scales 66; dorsum and flanks uniformly brown.................... L. boehmei
16 Scales carinated; lamellae on fourth toe 14.......................................................... L. herberti
- Scales smooth; lamellae on fourth toe 12–13...................................................... L. bowringii
description: Published as part of Geissler, Peter, Hartmann, Timo & Neang, Thy, 2012, A new species of the genus Lygosoma Hardwicke & Gray, 1827 (Squamata: Scincidae) from northeastern Cambodia, with an updated identification key to the genus Lygosoma in mainland Southeast Asia, pp. 56-68 in Zootaxa 3190 on pages 65-66, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.280057