Lampropholis
| Indo-Australian ground skinks | |
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| Lampropholis guichenoti, common garden skink | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia (paraphyletic) |
| Order: | Squamata (paraphyletic) |
| Suborder: | Sauria (unranked) |
| Infraorder: | Scincomorpha |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Lygosominae |
| Genus: | Lampropholis Fitzinger, 1843 |
| Species | |
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14, see text | |
Lampropholis, the Indo-Australian ground skinks or sunskinks, are a genus of skinks in the lizard subfamily Lygosominae. The genus Lampropholis 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.
Species
The following 14 species are recognized.[2][3][4]
- Lampropholis adonis Ingram, 1991 – diamond-shielded sunskink
- Lampropholis amicula (Ingram & Rawlinson, 1981) – friendly sunskink
- Lampropholis caligula (Ingram & Rawlinson, 1981) – montane sunskink
- Lampropholis coggeri Ingram, 1991 – rainforest sunskink
- Lampropholis colossus Ingram, 1991 – Bunya sunskink, greater litter skink
- Lampropholis couperi Ingram, 1991 – plain-backed sunskink
- Lampropholis delicata (De Vis, 1888) – delicate skink, rainbow skink, garden skink, delicate grass skink
- Lampropholis elongata Greer, 1997
- Lampropholis guichenoti (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – common garden skink, pale-flecked garden sunskink, grass skink, Guichenot's grass skink
- Lampropholis longleyi Wells & Wellington, 1985 – Longley's grass skink
- Lampropholis lunneyi Wells & Wellington, 1984 – Lunney’s litter skink
- Lampropholis mirabilis Ingram & Rawlinson, 1981 – saxicoline sunskink
- Lampropholis robertsi Ingram, 1991 – grey-bellied sunskink
- Lampropholis swani Wells & Wellington, 1985 – Swan’s litter skink
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- ↑ Austin JJ, Arnold EN. (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).
- ↑ Lampropholis, The Reptile Database.
- ↑ Wilson S, Swan G. (2006). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Second Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishing. 512 pp. ISBN 978-1877069468.
- ↑ Some Taxonomic Changes to the Genus Lampropholis (Reptilia: Scincidae) from Australia, AUSTRALIAN BIODIVERSITY RECORD.