# Subdoluseps

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Genus of lizards

Subdoluseps Subdoluseps bowringii Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Family: Scincidae Subfamily: Lygosominae Genus: Subdoluseps Freitas, Datta-Roy, Karanth, L. Grismer & Siler, 2019[1]

***Subdoluseps***, also known [commonly](/source/Common_name) as **supple skinks** and **writhing skinks**, is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [lizards](/source/Lizard) in the [subfamily](/source/Subfamily) [Lygosominae](/source/Lygosominae) of the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Scincidae](/source/Scincidae). Member [species](/source/Species) were all previously assigned to the genus *[Lygosoma](/source/Lygosoma)*.

## Species

The following species are recognized as being valid.[2]

- *[Subdoluseps bowringii](/source/Subdoluseps_bowringii)* ([Günther](/source/Albert_G%C3%BCnther), 1864) – Christmas Island grass skink, Bowring's supple skink

- *[Subdoluseps frontoparietalis](/source/Subdoluseps_frontoparietalis)* ([Taylor](/source/Edward_Harrison_Taylor), 1962) – Taylor's writhing skink, pygmy supple skink

- *[Subdoluseps herberti](/source/Subdoluseps_herberti)* ([M.A. Smith](/source/Malcolm_Arthur_Smith), 1916) – Herbert's supple skink

- *[Subdoluseps malayana](/source/Subdoluseps_malayana)* [L. Grismer](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Larry_Lee_Grismer), [Dzukafly](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Zaharil_Dzukafly), [Muin](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mohd_Abdul_Muin), [Quah](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Evan_S.H._Quah), [Karin](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_R._Karin), [Anuar](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Shahrul_Anuar_Mohd_Sah) & [Freitas](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Elyse_S._Freitas), 2019 – Malaysian supple skink

- *[Subdoluseps nilgiriensis](/source/Subdoluseps_nilgiriensis)* [Ganesh](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sumaithangi_Rajagopalan_Ganesh), [Srikanthan](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Achyuthan_Needamangalam_Srikanthan), [Ghosh](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Avrajjal_Ghosh), [Adhikari](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Omkar_Dilip_Adhikari), [S. Kumar](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Shree_Varsha_Vijay_Kumar) & [Datta-Roy](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Aniruddha_Datta_Roy), 2021 – Nilgiri gracile skink

- *[Subdoluseps pruthi](/source/Subdoluseps_pruthi)* ([Sharma](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ramesh_Chandra_Sharma), 1977) – Pruthi's skink

- *[Subdoluseps samajaya](/source/Subdoluseps_samajaya)* (Karin, Freitas, [Shonleben](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Shonleben), L. Grismer, [Bauer](/source/Aaron_Matthew_Bauer) & [Das](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indraneil_Das), 2018)

- *[Subdoluseps vietnamensis](/source/Subdoluseps_vietnamensis)* [M.V. Le](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Manh_Van_Le), [V.D.H. Nguyen](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vu_Dang_Hoang_Nguyen), [Phan](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hoa_Thi_Phan), [Rujirawan](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attapol_Rujirawan), [Aowphol](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anchalee_Aowphol), [Vo](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Thi-Dieu-Hien_Vo), [R. Murphy](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ward_Murphy) & [S.N. Nguyen](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sang_Ngoc_Nguyen), 2021 – Vietnam agile skink

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Freitas ES](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Elyse_S._Freitas), [Datta-Roy A](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Aniruddha_Datta-Roy), [Karanth K](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/K._Praveen_Karanth), [Grismer LL](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Larry_Lee_Grismer), [Siler CD](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cameron_D._Siler) (2019). "Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for African, Asian and Indian supple and writhing skinks (Scincide: Lygosominae)". *Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society* **186** (4): 1067–1096. (*Subdoluseps*, new genus).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Genus *[Subdoluseps](https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/advanced_search?genus=Subdoluseps&exact=genus&submit=Search)* at [The Reptile Database](http://www.reptile-database.org/) www.reptile-database.org.

Taxon identifiers Subdoluseps Wikidata: Q107394682 Wikispecies: Subdoluseps CoL: 8K53J

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