Riopa

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Lygosominae
Genus:
Species (9): R. albopunctata – R. anguina – R. deccanensis – R. guentheri – R. lineata – R. lineolata – R. popae – R. punctata – R. vosmaerii

Riopa Gray, 1839

• Type species: Lacerta punctata Linnaeus, 1758, by monotypy.

• Freitas, E.S., Datta-Roy, A., Karanth, P., Grismer, L.L. & Siler, C.D. 2019. Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for African, Asian and Indian supple and writhing skinks (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 186(4): 1067–1096. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz001 Reference page. 
• Bhupathi, B., Ray, S., Karuthapandi, M., Jaiswal, D., Deepak, V. & Mohapatra, P.P. 2025. A new species of Riopa Gray, 1839 (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from the Eastern Ghats, India. Zootaxa 5647(2): 117–130. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5647.2.2 Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Riopa . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 2 March 2023.