Subspecies in India
This species is listed as Critically Endangered in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (https://www.iucnredlist.org/).Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Type Locality: Barkuda island (Chilika lake, Odisha)
Rare, known to be reported from Barkuda island (Chilika lake, Ganjam district, Odisha) and Nandankanan Biological Park (Cuttack district, Odisha) (Bauer et al., 2014).
Conservation Status:
This species is listed as Critically Endangered in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (https://www.iucnredlist.org/).The skink species is found in scrub forest and semi-evergreen forest patches, it digs burrows in loose earth around tree roots (Bauer et al., 2014). Since the forests of Odisha are patchily distributed due to forest destruction and forest fires; it evidences that the species might be affected with such level of habitat degradation (Bauer et al., 2014).
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Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Barkudia insularis Annandale, 1917 – Barakuda Limbless Skink. In Kamdar, A. and K. Kunte. (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. v.1.26. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.indianreptiles.org/barkudia-insularis, accessed 2024/09/12.