Emoia

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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

Emoia is a genus of skinks in the subfamily Lygosominae. It belongs to a group of genera mainly from the southwestern Pacific-Australian region. The group also includes the genus Leiolopisma.[2]

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 W.C. Brown & Marshall, 1953 – Arno skink
  • Emoia atrocostata (Lesson, 1826) – littoral skink
  • Emoia aurulenta
  • Emoia battersbyi (Procter, 1923)
  • Emoia bismarckensis
  • Emoia boettgeri (Sternfeld, 1920) – Boettger's skink
  • Emoia bogerti
  • Emoia brongersmai
  • Emoia caeruleocauda (De Vis, 1892) – Pacific blue-tailed emoia, Marianas blue-tailed skink
  • Emoia callisticta
  • Emoia campbelli
  • Emoia coggeri
  • Emoia concolor
  • Emoia cyanogaster (Lesson, 1826) – blue-bellied skink
  • Emoia cyanura (Lesson, 1826) – azure-tailed emoia, copper-tailed emoia
  • Emoia cyclops
  • Emoia digul
  • Emoia erronan
  • Emoia flavigularis
  • Emoia guttata
  • Emoia impar (F. Werner, 1898) – copper striped blue-tailed skink[3]
  • Emoia irianensis
  • Emoia isolata
  • Emoia jakati (Kopstein, 1926) – Jakati emoia, Kopstein's skink
  • Emoia jamur
  • Emoia kitcheneri
  • Emoia klossi
  • Emoia kordoana
  • Emoia kuekenthali
  • Emoia laobaoense
  • Emoia lawesi (Günther, 1874) – Lawes' skink
  • Emoia longicauda (Macleay, 1877)
  • Emoia loveridgei
  • Emoia loyaltiensis
  • Emoia maculata
  • Emoia maxima
  • Emoia mivarti (Boulenger, 1887) – Mivart's skink
  • Emoia mokosariniveikau
  • Emoia montana
  • Emoia nativittatis
  • Emoia nigra (Jacquinot & Guichenot, 1853) – black skink
  • Emoia nigromarginata
  • Emoia obscura
  • Emoia oribata
  • Emoia pallidiceps
  • Emoia paniai
  • Emoia parkeri
  • Emoia physicae
  • Emoia physicina
  • Emoia ponapea Kiester, 1982 – Ponape Forest skink
  • Emoia popei
  • Emoia pseudocyanura
  • Emoia pseudopallidiceps
  • Emoia reimschisseli
  • Emoia rennellensis
  • Emoia ruficauda
  • Emoia rufilabialis
  • Emoia samoensis (A.H.A. Duméril in A.M.C. Duméril & A.H.A. Duméril, 1851) – Samoan skink
  • Emoia sanfordi
  • Emoia schmidti
  • Emoia similis
  • Emoia slevini W.C. Brown & Falanruw, 1972 – Slevin's skink, Marianas emoia
  • Emoia sorex
  • Emoia submetallica
  • Emoia taumakoensis
  • Emoia tetrataenia
  • Emoia tongana
  • Emoia tropidolepis
  • Emoia trossula
  • Emoia veracunda

References

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  1. ↑ Noether 1908.
  2. ↑ Austin, J. J. and E. N. Arnold. (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): 503–11. (HTML abstract)
  3. ↑ Another vertebrate species reported extinct from the Hawaiian Islands. United States Geological Survey. March 20, 2012.
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