Lipinia

Lipinia
Lipinia noctua
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Lipinia Gray, 1845
Species
28, see text.

Lipinia is a genus of skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae. Species in the genus Lipinia are commonly called lipinias.

Taxonomy

The genus Lipinia belongs to the Sphenomorphus group of genera in which Lipinia has a rather basal position (Austin & Arnold 2006).

Species

The following species are recognized as being valid.^[1]

• Lipinia albodorsalis (T. Vogt, 1932)
• Lipinia auriculata (Taylor, 1917)
• Lipinia cheesmanae (Parker, 1940)
• Lipinia inexpectata Das & C. Austin, 2007
• Lipinia infralineolata (A. Günther, 1873)
• Lipinia leptosoma (W. Brown & Fehlmann, 1958)
• Lipinia longiceps (Boulenger, 1895)
• Lipinia macrotympanum (Stoliczka, 1873) – big-eared lipinia
• Lipinia miangensis (F. Werner, 1910)
• Lipinia nitens (W. Peters, 1871)
• Lipinia noctua (Lesson, 1830)
• Lipinia nototaenia (Boulenger, 1914)
• Lipinia occidentalis R. Günther, 2000
• Lipinia pulchella Gray, 1845
• Lipinia pulchra (Boulenger, 1903)
• Lipinia quadrivittata (W. Peters, 1867) – four-striped lipinia
• Lipinia rabori (W. Brown & Alcala, 1956)
• Lipinia relicta (Vinciguerra, 1892)
• Lipinia rouxi (Hediger, 1934)
• Lipinia sekayuensis Grismer et al., 2014
• Lipinia semperi (W. Peters, 1867)
• Lipinia septentrionalis R. Günther, 2000
• Lipinia subvittata (A. Günther, 1873)
• Lipinia surda Boulenger, 1900
• Lipinia venemai Brongersma, 1953
• Lipinia vittigera (Boulenger, 1894)
• Lipinia vulcania Girard, 1858
• Lipinia zamboangensis (W. Brown & Alcala, 1963)

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

References

Further reading

• Gray, J.E. (1845). Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxviii + 289 pp. (Lipinia, new genus, p. 84).

External links

• 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)