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Lizard Wears Shades. A Spectacled Sphenomorphus (Squamata: Scincidae), from the Sacred Forests of Mawphlang, Meghalaya, North-east India
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Datta-Roy, Aniruddha, Das, Indraneil, Bauer, Aaron M., Lyngdoh Tron, Ronald K., Karanth, Praveen (2013): Lizard Wears Shades. A Spectacled Sphenomorphus (Squamata: Scincidae), from the Sacred Forests of Mawphlang, Meghalaya, North-east India. Zootaxa 3701 (2): 257-276, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3701.2.7
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