Carlia
Encyclopedia
The four-fingered skinks are the skink
genus
Carlia in the subfamily Lygosominae
. It belongs to a clade
with the genera Niveoscincus
, Lampropholis
and possibly others of the Eugongylus
group.
Skink
Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae. Together with several other lizard families, including Lacertidae , they comprise the superfamily or infraorder Scincomorpha...
genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
Carlia in the subfamily Lygosominae
Lygosominae
Lygosominae is the largest subfamily of skinks in the family Scincidae. The subfamily can be divided into a number of genus-groups. If the rarely used taxonomic rank of infrafamily is employed, the genus-groups would be designated as such, but such a move would require a formal description...
. It belongs to a clade
Clade
A clade is a group consisting of a species and all its descendants. In the terms of biological systematics, a clade is a single "branch" on the "tree of life". The idea that such a "natural group" of organisms should be grouped together and given a taxonomic name is central to biological...
with the genera Niveoscincus
Niveoscincus
Niveoscincus is a genus of skinks , commonly called Snow Skinks or Cool-skinks and residing mainly in Tasmania or Victoria, Australia. It belongs to a clade with the genera Carlia, Lampropholis and possibly others of the Eugongylus group. For similar skinks see genera Pseudemoia, Lampropholis, and...
, Lampropholis
Lampropholis
Lampropholis, the Indo-Australian ground skinks or Sunskinks, are a genus of skinks in the subfamily Lygosominae. It belongs to a clade with the genera Niveoscincus, Leiolopisma and possibly others of the Eugongylus group. They are found mainly in Indonesia and Australia...
and possibly others of the Eugongylus
Eugongylus
Eugongylus is a genus of skinks in the subfamily Lygosominae. The namesake of the Eugonglyus group of genera, it occupies a quite basal position among these...
group.
Species
- Carlia aenigma (Zug, 2004)
- Carlia ailanpalai (Zug, 2004)
- Carlia amax (Storr, 1974) -- Bauxite Rainbow-skink
- Carlia aramia (Zug, 2004)
- Carlia babarensis (Kopstein, 1926)
- Carlia beccarii (Peters & Dorio, 1878)
- Carlia bicarinata (Macleay, 1877) -- Rainbow-skink
- Carlia bomberai (Zug & Allison, 2006)
- Carlia caesius (Zug & Allison, 2006)
- Carlia coensis (Mitchell, 1953) -- Coen Rainbow-skink
- Carlia diguliensis (Kopstein, 1926)
- Carlia dogare (Covacevich & Ingram, 1975) -- Sandy Rainbow-skink
- Carlia eothen (Zug, 2004)
- Carlia fusca (Dumeril & Bibron, 1839) -- Indonesian Brown Skink Carlia
- Carlia gracilis (Storr, 1974) -- Slender Rainbow-skink
- Carlia jarnoldae (Covacevich & Ingram, 1975) -- Lined Rainbow-skink
- Carlia johnstonei (Storr, 1974) -- Rough Brown Rainbow-skink
- Carlia leucotaenia (Bleeker, 1860)
- Carlia longipes (Macleay, 1877) -- Closed-litter Rainbow-skink
- Carlia luctuosa (Peters & Dorio, 1878)
- Carlia munda (de Vis, 1885) -- Shaded-litter Rainbow-skink
- Carlia mundivensis (Broom, 1898) -- Outcrop Rainbow-skink
- Carlia mysi (Zug, 2004)
- Carlia parrhasius (Couper, Covacevich & Lethbridge, 1994) -- Fire-tailed Rainbow-skink
- Carlia pectoralis (de Vis, 1885) -- Open-litter Rainbow-skink
- Carlia peronii (Dumeril & Bibron, 1839)
- Carlia prava (Covacevich & Ingram, 1978)
- Carlia pulla (Barbour, 1911)
- Carlia rhomboidalis (Peters, 1869) -- Blue-throated Rainbow-skink
- Carlia rimula (Ingram & Covacevich, 1980) -- Crevice Rainbow-skink
- Carlia rostralis (de Vis, 1885) -- Black-throated Rainbow-skink, Hooded Rainbow Skink
- Carlia rubrigularis (Ingram & Covacevich, 1989) -- Red-throated Rainbow-skink, Northern Red-throated Skink
- Carlia rufilatus (Storr, 1974) -- Red-sided Rainbow-skink
- Carlia schlegelii (Peters, 1864)
- Carlia schmeltzii (Peters, 1867) -- Robust Rainbow-skink, Schmeltz’s skink
- Carlia scirtetisCarlia scirtetisThe Black Mountain Rainbow-skink is an endemic species that inhabits a total of 6 km² on Black Mountain in Queensland Australia. The species is 70 mm long with a weight between 4 and 6 grams.-References:...
(Ingram & Covacevich, 1980) -- Black Mountain Rainbow-skink - Carlia storri (Ingram & Covacevich, 1989) -- Brown Bicarinate Rainbow-skink
- Carlia tetradactyla (O'Shaughnessy, 1879) -- Southern Rainbow-skink
- Carlia triacantha (Mitchell, 1953) -- Desert Rainbow-skink
- Carlia tutela (Zug, 2004)
- Carlia vivax (de Vis, 1884) -- Tussock Rainbow-skink