Dasia is a genus of lizards, commonly known as tree skinks or dasias, in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to Asia.[1][2]
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The genus Dasia contains ten species which are recognized as being valid.[3]
- Dasia griffini Taylor, 1915 – Griffin's dasia
- Dasia grisea (Gray, 1845) – big tree skink, grey dasia, grey tree skink
- Dasia haliana (Nevill in Haly & Nevill, 1887) – Ceylonese dasia
- Dasia johnsinghi Harikrishnan et al., 2012 – barred tree skink
- Dasia nicobarensis Biswas & Sanyal, 1977 – Nicobar dasia, Nicobar tree skink
- Dasia olivacea Gray, 1839 – olive dasia, olive tree skink
- Dasia semicincta (W. Peters, 1867) – Peters's dasia
- Dasia subcaerulea (Boulenger, 1891) – Boulenger's dasia, Boulenger's tree skink
- Dasia vittata (Edeling, 1865) – Borneo skink, striped tree skink
- Dasia vyneri (Shelford, 1905) – Shelford's skink
- Gray JE (1839). "Catalogue of the Slender-tongued Saurians, with Descriptions of many new Genera and Species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, [First Series] 2: 331–337. (Dasia, new genus, p. 331; D. olivacea, new species, p. 331).
- Harikrishnan S, Vasudevan K, De Silva A, Deepak V, Kar NB, Naniwadekar R, Lalremruata A, Prasoona LR, Aggarwal RK (2012). "Phylogeography of Dasia Gray, 1830 (Reptilia: Scincidae), with the description of a new species from southern India". Zootaxa 3233: 37–51. Preview. (Dasia johnsinghi, new species).
- Data related to Dasia at Wikispecies