Dasia (lizard)

"Tree skink" redirects here. For other lizards known as tree skinks, see Tree skink (disambiguation).

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]

Tree skinks
Dasia johnsinghi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Scinciformata
Infraorder:	Scincomorpha
Superfamily:	Lygosomoidea
Family:	Mabuyidae
Genus:	Dasia Gray, 1839

Species

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