Dasia (lizard)

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 – dasia
• Dasia grisea – big tree skink, grey dasia, grey tree skink
• Dasia haliana – Ceylonese dasia
• Dasia johnsinghi – barred tree skink
• Dasia nicobarensis – Nicobar dasia, Nicobar tree skink
• Dasia olivacea – olive dasia, olive tree skink
• Dasia semicincta – Peters's dasia
• Dasia subcaerulea – Boulenger's dasia, Boulenger's tree skink
• Dasia vittata – Borneo skink, striped tree skink
• Dasia vyneri – Shelford's skink

References

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, [First Series] 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).