Indo-Australian ground skinks | |
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Common Garden Skink (L. guichenoti) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia (paraphyletic) |
(unranked): | Sauria |
Order: | Squamata (paraphyletic) |
Infraorder: | Scincomorpha |
Family: | Scincidae |
Subfamily: | Lygosominae |
Genus: | Lampropholis Fitzinger, 1843 |
Species | |
14, see text |
Lampropholis, the Indo-Australian ground skinks or Sunskinks, are a genus of skinks in the subfamily Lygosominae. It belongs to a clade with the genera Niveoscincus, Leiolopisma and possibly others of the Eugongylus group.[1] They are found mainly in Indonesia and Australia. For similar skinks see genera Bassiana, Pseudemoia, and Niveoscincus.
this is a lizard-type creature.