Tropidophorus boehmei, also known commonly as Boehme's water skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is native to Vietnam.
Etymology The specific name, boehmei, is in honor of German herpetologist Wolfgang Böhme.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Tropidophorus boehmei, p. 30).
Geographic range T. boehmei is endemic to Lào Cai Province in northern Vietnam.
Habitat The preferred natural habitats of T. boehmei are forest and freshwater streams, at altitudes of .
Description Large for its genus, T. boehmei may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about . Dorsally, it is dark gray, with a pattern of lighter crossbands and white dots.
Diet T. boehmi preys upon spiders.
Reproduction The mode of reproduction of T. boehmi is unknown.
References
Further reading Nguyen TQ, Nguyen TT, Schmitz A, Orlov NL, Zeigler T (2010). "A new species of the genus Tropidophorus Duméril & Bibron, 1839 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) from Vietnam". Zootaxa 2439: 53–68. (Tropidophorus boehmei, new species).