Emoia

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Emoia
Emoia caeruleocauda
Emoia caeruleocauda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia (paraphyletic)
(unranked) Sauria
Order: Squamata (paraphyletic)
Infraorder: Scincomorpha
Family: Scincidae
Subfamily: Lygosominae
Genus: Emoia
Gray, 1845
Species

About 75, see text

Emoia is a genus of skinks (family Scincidae). It belongs to a group of genera mainly from the SW Pacific-Australian region, such as Leiolopisma; these and others form the Eugongylus group (Austin & Arnold 2006).

[edit] Species

  • Emoia adspersa
  • Emoia aenea
  • Emoia ahli
  • Emoia aneityumensis
  • Emoia arnoensis
  • Emoia atrocostata
  • Emoia aurulenta
  • Emoia battersbyi
  • Emoia bismarckensis
  • Emoia boettgeri
  • Emoia bogerti
  • Emoia brongersmai
  • Emoia caeruleocauda
  • Emoia callisticta
  • Emoia campbelli
  • Emoia coggeri
  • Emoia concolor
  • Emoia cyanogaster
  • Emoia cyanura
  • Emoia cyclops
  • Emoia digul
  • Emoia erronan
  • Emoia flavigularis
  • Emoia guttata
  • Emoia impar
  • Emoia irianensis
  • Emoia isolata
  • Emoia jakati
  • Emoia jamur
  • Emoia kitcheneri
  • Emoia klossi
  • Emoia kordoana
  • Emoia kuekenthali
  • Emoia laobaoense
  • Emoia lawesi
  • Emoia longicauda
  • Emoia loveridgei
  • Emoia loyaltiensis
  • Emoia maculata
  • Emoia maxima
  • Emoia mivarti
  • Emoia mokosariniveikau
  • Emoia montana
  • Emoia nativittatis
  • Emoia nigra
  • Emoia nigromarginata
  • Emoia obscura
  • Emoia oribata
  • Emoia pallidiceps
  • Emoia paniai
  • Emoia parkeri
  • Emoia physicae
  • Emoia physicina
  • Emoia ponapea
  • Emoia popei
  • Emoia pseudocyanura
  • Emoia pseudopallidiceps
  • Emoia reimschisseli
  • Emoia rennellensis
  • Emoia ruficauda
  • Emoia rufilabialis
  • Emoia samoensis
  • Emoia sanfordi
  • Emoia schmidti
  • Emoia similis
  • Emoia slevini
  • Emoia sorex
  • Emoia submetallica
  • Emoia taumakoensis
  • Emoia tetrataenia
  • Emoia tongana
  • Emoia tropidolepis
  • Emoia trossula
  • Emoia veracunda

[edit] References

  • ITIS: Emoia
  • Austin, J.J. & Arnold, E.N. (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 (HTML abstract)


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