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Eutropis rugifera
Range
South-east Asia, including the Nicobar Islands and southern Thailand
Eutropis rugifera, known as the Nicobar Island skink or rough-scaled sun skink, is a skink from south-eastern Asia. The ear opening is very small and oval with projecting granules round its border, and the back, nape and side scales are very strongly five-keeled, with 26 scales round the body. The tail is 1.6 times the length of the head and body (Wikipedia, general species account).