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Indian Legless Skinks
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Indian Legless Skinks

Barkudia

Barkudia is a little-known genus of skinks endemic to India. These lizards are thought to be semi-fossorial, and living in coastal areas of the east coast of India. Almost nothing is known about the natural history of this genus, except for classical taxonomic texts.

There are two species:

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Visakhapatnam Legless Skink

speciesBarkudia melanosticta

Madras Legless Skink

speciesBarkudia insularis

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 37358.