Yellow-striped slender tree skink, Beautiful lipinia
Lipinia pulchella, known commonly as the yellow-striped slender tree skink or beautiful lipinia, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Philippines.
The specific name, levitoni, is in honor of American herpetologist Alan Edward Leviton (born 1930).
The specific name, taylori, is in honor of American herpetologist Edward Harrison Taylor (1889–1978).
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TerrestrialTerrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g., cats, ants, snails), as compared with aquatic animals, which liv...
Oviparous animals are female animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive...
Precocial species are those in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching. Precocial species are normall...
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starts withL. pulchella is found at elevations of 250–1,100 m (820–3,610 ft) above sea level throughout the whole country of the Philippines, though its three subspecies occupy smaller geographical regions, which do not necessarily overlap. The skink is found on trunks of trees in the dipterocarp or submontane tropical moist forests.
L. pulchella is oviparous.
