Carlia

Carlia
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

  1. "Carlia ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
  2. 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.
  3. Carlia. Reptile Database.

Further reading


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