The Bronze Mabuya or Bronze Grass Skink (Eutropis macularia) is a species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

 of skink

Skink

Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae. Together with several other lizard families, including Lacertidae , they comprise the superfamily or infraorder Scincomorpha...

 found in Asia

Asia

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Description

Snout short, obtusely keeled, acuminate. Louver eyelid scaly. Nostril behind vertical of suture between rostral and first labial; no postnasal; anterior loreal deeper and shorter than second; frontonasal as long as broad or a little broader than long, in contact with the rostral and uMiallv also with the frontal; latter as long as the frontoparietals and interparietal together or a little longer, in contact with the second, or first and second, supraoculars ; 4 supraoculars, second largest; 5 supraciliaries, third longest; frontoparietals distinct, larger than the interparietal, which entirely separates the parietals: a pair of nuchals ; 4, exceptionally 3, labials anterior to the subocular, which is large and not narrowed below. Ear-opening oval, as large as a lateral scale, or a little smaller, with or without a few very indistinct lobules anteriorly. Dorsal, nuchal, and lateral scales with 5 to 7 sharp keels; 26 to 30 scales round the middle of the body, subequal. The adpressed limbs meet or overlap. Digits short; subdigital lamellae smooth. Scales on upper surface of tibia mostly bicannate. Tail 1.25 to 1.75 times the length of head and body. Brown or olive-brown above, sides darker and usually with white black-edged spots; back uniform, or black-spotted, or with one or two black longitudinal lines; sometimes two light lateral lines on each side, well marked only on the neck; lower surfaces yellowish (in spirit).
From snout to vent 2.5 inches ; tail 3.6.

Distribution

Pakistan

Pakistan

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, India

India

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, Bhutan

Bhutan

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, Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

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, Bangladesh ?, Myanmar

Myanmar

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 (= Burma), Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

, Laos

Laos

Laos Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south and Thailand to the west...

, Cambodia

Cambodia

Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...

, Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

, N West Malaysia
Type locality: Rangpur, Bengal [India]

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