Carlia
| Carlia | |
|---|---|
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| Carlia ailanpalai | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia (paraphyletic) |
| Order: | Squamata (paraphyletic) |
| Suborder: | Sauria |
| Infraorder: | Scincomorpha |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Lygosominae |
| Genus: | Carlia Gray, 1845[1] |
Carlia is a genus of skinks, commonly known as four-fingered skinks, in the subfamily Lygosominae. Carlia belongs to a clade with the genera Niveoscincus, Lampropholis, and possibly others of the Eugongylus group.[2]
Species
The genus Carlia contains the following species (n.b., a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Carlia):[3]
- 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 (W. Peters & Doria, 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 (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Indonesian brown skink
- 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 (W. Peters & Doria, 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 (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839)
- Carlia prava (Covacevich & Ingram, 1978)
- Carlia pulla (T. Barbour, 1911)
- Carlia rhomboidalis (W. 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 (W. Peters, 1864)
- Carlia schmeltzii (W. Peters, 1867) – robust rainbow-skink, Schmeltz’s skink
- Carlia scirtetis (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
- Carlia wundalthini (Hoskin, 2014) – Cape Melville rainbow skink
References
- ↑ "Carlia ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
- ↑ Austin JJ, Arnold EN (2006). "Using ancient and recent DNA to explore relationships of extinct and endangered Leiolopisma skinks (Reptilia: Scincidae) in the Mascarene islands". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 39 (2): 503–511. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.12.011.
- ↑ Carlia. Reptile Database.
Further reading
- Gray JE (1845). Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxviii + 289 pp. (Carlia, new genus, p. 271).
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