Dasia vyneri, also known commonly as Shelford's skink and Vyner's tree skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is native to Southeast Asia.
Etymology The specific name, vyneri, is in honor of Charles Vyner de Windt Brooke, who was to become the last White Raja of Sarawak.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Lampropelis vyneri, p. 277).
Geographic range Dasia vyneri is known only from Sarawak, Malaysia.Das, Indraneil (2004). "A new locality for the rare bornean Skink, Lamprolepis vyneri (Shelford, 1905) (Sauria: Scincidae)". Asiatic Herpetological Research 10: 241-244.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of D. vyneri is forest.
Description Dasia vyneri may attain a snout-to-vent length of .Das I (2006). A Photographic Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Borneo. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books.144 pp. . (Lamprolepis vyneri, p. 111).
Behavior Dasia vyneri is an arboreal species.
Reproduction Dasia vyneri is oviparous.
References
Further reading Greer AE (1970). "The Relationships of the Skinks Referred to the Genus Dasia ". Breviora (348): 1–30. (Lamprolepis vyneri, new combination, p. 19). Shelford R (1905). "A new Lizard and a new Frog from Borneo". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Seventh Series 15: 208–210. ("Lygosoma (Keneuxia) Vyneri ", sp.n., pp.208–209. Smith MA (1937). "A Review of the Genus Lygosoma (Scincidae: Reptilia) and its Allies". Records of the Indian Museum 39 (3): 213–234. (Dasia vyneri, new combination, p. 226).