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Olive Dasia

Dasia olivacea Gray, 1839

Source-backed taxonomic record

Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Dasia olivacea Gray, 1839
Name authority
Gray, 1839
Common name
Olive Dasia
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Reptilia
Order
Squamata
Family
Scincidae
Genus
Dasia
Extinction status
Not supplied by this source

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

  1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
  2. kingdomAnimalia
  3. phylumChordata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. infraphylumGnathostomata
  6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
  7. megaclassTetrapoda
  8. classReptilia Laurenti, 1768
  9. orderSquamata Oppel, 1811
  10. suborderAutarchoglossa
  11. familyScincidae
  12. subfamilyMabuyinae
  13. genusDasia
  14. speciesDasia olivacea Gray, 1839

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Dasia. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

SpeciesClassificationSource status
Big Tree SkinkDasia grisea (Gray, 1845)ScincidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Ceylonese DasiaDasia haliana (Nevill, 1887)ScincidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Nicobar DasiaDasia nicobarensis Biswas & Sanyal, 1977ScincidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Peters' DasiaDasia semicincta (Peters, 1867)ScincidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Griffin's DasiaDasia griffini Taylor, 1915ScincidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Barred tree skinkDasia johnsinghi Harikrishnan, Vasudevan, de Silva, Deepak, Kar, Naniwadekar, Lalremruata, Prasoona & Aggarwal, 2012ScincidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Shelford's SkinkDasia vyneri (Shelford, 1905)ScincidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Boulenger's DasiaDasia subcaerulea (Boulenger, 1891)ScincidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Borneo SkinkDasia vittata (Edeling, 1865)ScincidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied

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Names & synonyms

Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.

Recorded nameSource status
Euprepes ernesti Duméril & Bibron, 1839 Duméril & Bibron, 1839synonym
Mabuia saravacensis Bartlett, 1895 Bartlett, 1895ambiguous synonym
Mabuia wirzi Roux, 1925 Roux, 1925synonym
Eurepis microcephalus Hallowell, 1856 Hallowell, 1856synonym

Documented distribution

Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.

India: Nicobar Islands, Philippine I, Natuna I, Singapore,

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

  1. https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Dasia&species=olivacea Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:346GM. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.