Emoia

Emoia

Pacific Blue-tailed Emoia (Emoia caeruleocauda)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Subfamily:	Lygosominae
Genus:	Emoia Gray, 1845
Species
About 75, see text
Synonyms
Emoa Girard, 1857

Emoia is a genus of skinks in the subfamily Lygosominae. It belongs to a group of genera mainly from the SW Pacific-Australian region, such as Leiolopisma; these and others form the Eugongylus group.^[1]

For lack of a better name, these small skinks are commonly known as emoias.

Species

Emoia adspersa (Steindachner, 1870) – Dark-sided Emoia, Dark-sided Skink, Dateline Emoia
Emoia aenea
Emoia ahli
Emoia aneityumensis
Emoia arnoensis Brown & Marshall, 1953 – Arno Emoia, Arno Skink
Emoia atrocostata (Lesson, 1826) – Littoral Emoia, Littoral Skink
Emoia aurulenta
Emoia battersbyi
Emoia bismarckensis
Emoia boettgeri (Sternfeld, 1920) – Boettger's Emoia, Boettger's Skink
Emoia bogerti
Emoia brongersmai
Emoia caeruleocauda (De Vis, 1892) – Pacific Blue-tailed Emoia, Marianas Blue-tailed Emoia, Marianas Blue-tailed Skink
Emoia callisticta
Emoia campbelli
Emoia coggeri
Emoia concolor
Emoia cyanogaster (Lesson, 1826) – Blue-bellied Emoia, Blue-bellied Skink
Emoia cyanura (Lesson, 1826) – Azure-tailed Emoia, Copper-tailed Copper-striped Emoia, "azure-tailed skink"
Emoia cyclops
Emoia digul
Emoia erronan

Emoia flavigularis
Emoia guttata
Emoia impar (Werner, 1898) – Blue-tailed Striped Emoia, Blue-tailed Striped Skink, "azure-tailed skink"
Emoia irianensis
Emoia isolata
Emoia jakati (Kopstein, 1926) – Jakati Emoia, Kopstein's Emoia, Kopstein's Skink
Emoia jamur
Emoia kitcheneri
Emoia klossi
Emoia kordoana
Emoia kuekenthali
Emoia laobaoense
Emoia lawesi (Günther, 1874) – Lawes' Emoia, Lawes' Skink
Emoia longicauda (Macleay, 1877)
Emoia loveridgei
Emoia loyaltiensis
Emoia maculata
Emoia maxima
Emoia mivarti (Boulenger, 1887) – Mivart's Emoia, Mivart's Skink
Emoia mokosariniveikau
Emoia montana
Emoia nativittatis
Emoia nigra (Jacquinot & Guichenot, 1853) – Black Emoia, Black Skink
Emoia nigromarginata
Emoia obscura

Emoia oribata
Emoia pallidiceps
Emoia paniai
Emoia parkeri
Emoia physicae
Emoia physicina
Emoia ponapea Kiester, 1982 – Ponape Forest Emoia, Ponape Forest Skink
Emoia popei
Emoia pseudocyanura
Emoia pseudopallidiceps
Emoia reimschisseli
Emoia rennellensis
Emoia ruficauda
Emoia rufilabialis
Emoia samoensis (Duméril in Duméril & Duméril, 1851) – Samoan Emoia, Samoan Skink
Emoia sanfordi
Emoia schmidti
Emoia similis
Emoia slevini Brown & Falanruw, 1972 – Slevin's Emoia, Slevin's Skink, Marianas Emoia
Emoia sorex
Emoia submetallica
Emoia taumakoensis
Emoia tetrataenia
Emoia tongana
Emoia tropidolepis
Emoia trossula
Emoia veracunda

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)