Scincus scincus, also commonly known as the sandfish skink, common sandfish or common skink, is a species of skink notable for its burrowing or swimming behaviour in sand.[2] It is native to the Sahara Desert and the Arabian Peninsula,[3][4] but is also kept as a pet elsewhere.[5][6]
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Scincusscincus, also commonly known as the sandfish skink, common sandfish or common skink, is a species of skink notable for its burrowing or swimming...
a hot and dry climate. Species in the genus Scincus can be found from Arabia to the Sahara desert. Scincus is the type genus of the subfamily Scincinae...
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rustamowi. The typical habitat of T. scincus is deserts and semi-arid areas, sand dunes and gravel plains. T. scincus is nocturnal and digs itself a deep...
University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Scincus hemprichii, p. 120). Scincus hemprichii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed...
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Anderson J (1871). "Description of a New Species of Scincus ". Proc. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1871: 115–116. (Scincus mitranus, new species). Boulenger GA (1887)....
of fish Awaous tajasica, known as sand fish, a species of goby fish Scincusscincus, known as sandfish, a species of skink (lizard) Holothuria scabra,...
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language around 1580–1590, comes from classical Greek skinkos and Latin scincus, names that referred to various specific lizards. Skink-like lizards first...
1900 to include all autarchoglossans closer to Varanus and Anguis than Scincus. These lizards, along with iguanians and snakes, constitute the proposed...
continens...Scincos... Frommann. Jena. vi + 364 pp. + Plates I.- II. (Scincus laticeps, pp. 189–190.) Smith, H.M., and E.D. Brodie, Jr. 1982. Reptiles...
belongs to a major clade which does not seem to include the type genus Scincus. Thus, it will probably be eventually assigned to a new, yet-to-be-named...
Maurice (Ile-de-France)". Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 22: 292–299. (Scincus boutonii, new species, pp. 298–299). (in French and Latin). v t e...
He is also commemorated in the names of two reptiles: Hemprich's skink (Scincus hemprichii) and Hemprich's coral snake (Micrurus hemprichii). The standard...
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