Scincella devorator

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Scincomorpha Superfamilia: Scincoidea

Scincella devorator (Darevsky, Orlov & Cuc, 2004)

Holotype: ZISP 22909, adult ♂, collected by Nikolai L. Orlov, Nguyen Van Truong and Sergei A. Ryabov on 25 July 2003.
Type locality: “Uong Bi, Quang Ninh province, northeastern Vietnam; 600 m a.s.l.”

Sphenomorphus devorator Darevsky, Orlov & Cuc, 2004: 117 [original combination]
Scincella devorator — Nguyen, Schmitz, Nguyen, Orlov, Böhme & Ziegler, 2011: 152 [subsequent combination]

Darevsky, I.S., Orlov, N.L. & Cuc, T.H. 2004. Two new lygosomine skinks of the genus Sphenomorphus Fitzinger, 1843 (Sauria, Scincidae) from northern Vietnam. Russian Journal of Herpetology 11(2): 111–120.
Nguyen, T.Q., Schmitz, A., Nguyen, T.T., Orlov, N.L., Böhme, W. & Ziegler, T. 2011. Review of the Genus Sphenomorphus Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) in Vietnam, with Description of a New Species from Northern Vietnam and Southern China and the First Record of Sphenomorphus mimicus Taylor, 1962 from Vietnam. Journal of Herpetology 45(2): 145–154. DOI: 10.1670/09-068.1 Reference page.

Nguyen, T.Q. 2018. IUCN: Scincella devorator (Data Deficient). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T102649689A102649736. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T102649689A102649736.en. Accessed on 07 October 2025.