Carlia
| Carlia | |
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| 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
- Carlia wundalthini (Hoskin, 2014) -- cape melville rainbow skink
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Carlia.
Footnotes
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)