| Prickly Skink Lizard | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia (paraphyletic) |
| (unranked): | Sauria |
| Order: | Squamata (paraphyletic) |
| Infraorder: | Scincomorpha |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Lygosominae |
| Genus: | Gnypetoscincus |
| Species: | G. queenslandiae |
| Binomial name | |
| Gnypetoscincus queenslandiae |
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Gnypetoscincus is a monotypic genus of skinks (family Scincidae). It contains a single species, the Prickly Skink, (Gnypetoscincus queenslandiae).
These skinks have rough, keeled scales, unlike the skin of most small skinks which tends to be smooth. They are found only in tropical north Queensland.
It belongs to a clade in the Sphenomorphus group which contains such genera as Ctenotus and Anomalopus. Even closer to the Prickly Skink seems the genus Eulamprus.(Austin & Arnold 2006)