Saiphos

Taxobox
name = "Saiphos"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
familia = Scincidae
genus = "Saiphos"
genus_authority = J.E. Gray, 1831Verify source|date=July 2007
species = "S. aequalis"
binomial = "Saiphos aequalis"
binomial_authority = (J.E. Gray, 1825)
synonyms =Genus-level:
*"Siaphos" J.E. Gray, 1839 (unjustified emendation)

"Saiphos" is a monotypic genus of skinks. "Siaphos" tridigitus", initially placed here, is now reassigned to the "wastebin taxon" "Sphenomorphus" pending a review of that assemblage.

References

* Greer, Allen E.; David, Patrick & Teynié, Alexandre (2006): The Southeast Asian scincid lizard "Siaphos tridigitus" Bourret, 1939 (Reptilia, Scincidae): a second specimen. "Zoosystema" 28(3): 785-790. [http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/8650_z06n3a13.pdf PDF fulltext]