Carlia

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.^[1]

Species^[2]

• 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 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

Footnotes

References

• 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)