Species of Thailand
Pale forest skink
Sphenomorphus tersus
Malcolm Arthur Smith, 1916
In Thai: จิ้งเหลนภูเขาสีจาง
Also knosn as Thai forest skink, Nakhon Si-Thammarat forest skink (Sphenomorphus tersus) is a species of skink found in Southeast Asia.
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Scientific classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Suborder
- Lacertilia
- Family
- Scincidae
- Genus
- Sphenomorphus
- Species
- Sphenomorphus tersus
Common names
- German: Nakhon Si-Thammarat-Waldskink
- English:
- Nakhon Si-Thammarat forest skink
- Thai forest skink
- Pale forest skink
- Thai: จิ้งเหลนภูเขาสีจาง
Synonyms
- Sphenomorphus tersus, Indraneil Das & Norsham S. Yaakob (2007)
- Sphenomorphus tersus, Tzi Ming Leong et al. (2002)
- Sphenomorphus tersus, Edward Harrison Taylor (1963)
- Lygosoma (Sphenomorphus) tersum, Malcolm Arthur Smith (1937)
- Lygosoma tersum, Malcolm Arthur Smith (1935)
- Lygosoma tersum, Malcolm Arthur Smith (1916)
Photos
Range Map
- Kaeng Krachan District, Phetchaburi
- Kaeng Krachan National Park
- Kathu District, Phuket
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