
Tropidophorus is a genus of semiaquatic lizards in the skink family (Scincidae), found in Indochina, Borneo, Sulawesi, and the Philippines. They are sometimes known as water skinks or waterside skinks.
Tropidophorus is a genus of semiaquatic lizards in the skink family (Scincidae), found in Indochina, Borneo, Sulawesi, and the Philippines. They are sometimes known as water skinks or waterside skinks.
==Species== The following 29 species are recognized: Tropidophorus assamensis Annandale, 1912 – north-eastern water skink Tropidophorus baconi Hikida, Riyanto & Ota, 2003 Tropidophorus baviensis Bourret, 1939 – Bavi water skink, Bavay's keeled skink Tropidophorus beccarii W. Peters, 1871 – Beccari's keeled skink Tropidophorus berdmorei (Blyth, 1853) – Berdmore's water skink Tropidophorus boehmei T.Q. Nguyen et al., 2010 – Boehme's water skink Tropidophorus brookei (Gray, 1845) – Brook's keeled skink Tropidophorus cocincinensis A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839 – Cochinchinese water skink Tropidophorus davaoensis Bacon, 1980 – Davao waterside skink Tropidophorus grayi Günther, 1861 – Gray's water skink, spiny waterside skink, Gray's keeled skink Tropidophorus guangxiensis Y. Wen, 1992 Tropidophorus hainanus M.A. Smith, 1923 – Hainan water skink Tropidophorus hangnam Chuaynkern et al., 2005 Tropidophorus iniquus Lidth de Jeude, 1905 Tropidophorus kouzhitongi Wang, Li, Deepak, Stuart & Che, 2025 – Kou's water skink Tropidophorus laotus M.A. Smith, 1923 – Laotian water skink, Laotian keeled skink Tropidophorus latiscutatus Hikida et al., 2002 Tropidophorus matsuii Hikida et al., 2002 Tropidophorus microlepis Günther, 1861 – small-scaled water skink Tropidophorus micropus Lidth de Jeude, 1905 Tropidophorus misaminius Stejneger, 1908 – Misamis waterside skink Tropidophorus mocquardii Boulenger, 1894 – Mocquard's keeled skink Tropidophorus murphyi Hikida et al., 2002 – Murphy's water skink Tropidophorus noggei T. Ziegler et al., 2005 – Nogge's water skink Tropidophorus partelloi Stejneger, 1910 – Partello's waterside skink Tropidophorus perplexus Barbour, 1921 Tropidophorus robinsoni M.A. Smith, 1919 – Robinson's water skink, Robinson's keeled skink Tropidophorus sebi Pui, Karin, Bauer & Das, 2017 – Baleh water skink Tropidophorus sinicus Boettger, 1886 – Chinese water skink Tropidophorus thai M.A. Smith, 1919 – Thai water skink, Thai stream skink
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).