Carlia

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Carlia
Carlia ailanpalai
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia (paraphyletic)
(unranked): Sauria
Order: Squamata (paraphyletic)
Suborder: Lacertilia
Infraorder: Scincomorpha
Family: Scincidae
Subfamily: Lygosominae
Genus: Carlia
Gray, 1845[1]
Species

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Carlia is a genus of skinks, commonly known as four-fingered skinks, in the subfamily Lygosominae. Carlia belongs to a clade with the genera Niveoscincus, Lampropholis, and possibly others of the Eugongylus group.[2]

Species[3]

  • 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 (W. Peters & Doria, 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 (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) -- Indonesian brown skink
  • 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 (W. Peters & Doria, 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 (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839)
  • Carlia prava Covacevich & Ingram, 1978
  • Carlia pulla (T. Barbour, 1911)
  • Carlia rhomboidalis (W. 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 (W. Peters, 1864)
  • Carlia schmeltzii (W. 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


Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Carlia.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
  2. ↑ Austin & Arnold (2006).
  3. ↑ Carlia, Reptile Database.

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)
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