Lygosominae is the largest subfamily of skinks in the family Scincidae. The subfamily can be divided into a number of genus groups. If the rarely used...
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of the family Scincidae. Lygosoma is the type genus of the subfamily Lygosominae. The common name, writhing skinks, refers to the way these stubby-legged...
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species) Techmarscincus (1 species) Tropidoscincus (3 species) Subfamily Lygosominae (lygosomid skinks; 56 species in 6 genera) Haackgreerius (1 species)...
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previously found to belong the Egernia group in the large subfamily Lygosominae. The subfamily Egerniinae contains 63 species in 8 genera. Uetz, P.;...
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genus of lizards, known commonly as emerald skinks, in the subfamily Lygosominae of the family Scincidae. Lygosoma is its closest genetic relative. Species...
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(boulenger, 1894) complex of Philippine forest skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Lygosominae) with descriptions of seven new species’, Zootaxa, 3700(4), p. 501. doi:10...
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is considered closely related to Mabuya, but even among the subfamily Lygosominae this genus does not seem to be particularly closely related and would—were...
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Euprepis (category Lygosominae)
Euprepis is an obsolete genus of skinks in the subfamily Lygosominae. It was named by Wagler in 1830 and frequently used in subsequent years, often misspelled...
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previously found to belong the Eugongylus group in the large subfamily Lygosominae. The subfamily Eugongylinae contains 469 species in 51 genera. Ablepharus...
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Niveoscincus, Leiolopisma and others of the Eugongylus group within Lygosominae. All species of Lampropholis are endemic to Australia. For similar skinks...
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be the only member of the genus Saiphos. It belongs to the subfamily Lygosominae of the skink family Scincidae. Phylogenetic analysis in 2003 showed that...
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genera Carlia, Lampropholis and others of the Eugongylus group within Lygosominae. Cogger has rejected the use of the junior name Niveoscincus and recognizes...
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previously recognised as namesake of the Eugonglyus group of genera within Lygosominae, where it occupied a quite basal position. Members of this genus are...
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previously found to belong to the Sphenomorphus group in the large subfamily Lygosominae. The subfamily Sphenomorphinae contains 591 species in 41 genera. Anomalopus...
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Necessity of partitioning the genus Mabuya Fitzinger, 1826 (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 241:281–293. http://www.car-spaw-rac...
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Trachylepis margaritifera (category Lygosominae stubs)
margaritifera) is a species of Afro-Malagasy mabuya or skink in the subfamily Lygosominae. Mabuya quinquetaeniata margaritifera, formerly a subspecies of Trachylepis...
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of the Skink Lampropholis delicata (De Vis, 1888) (Sauria: Scincidae: Lygosominae) by the Red-back Spider Latrodectus hasseltii Thorell, 1870 (Aranea:...
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Concinnia is a genus of skinks in the subfamily Lygosominae. The genus Concinnia belongs to the Australian Sphenomorphid clade that contains other genera...
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subfamilies of the family Scincidae, the other two being Acontinae and Lygosominae. The subfamily Scincinae contains the following 35 genera, of which seven...
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Chioninia (category Lygosominae)
Chioninia is a genus of skinks, lizards in the subfamily Lygosominae. For long, this genus was included in the "wastebin taxon" Mabuya. The genus Chioninia...
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Mittleman MB (1952). "A Generic Synopsis of the Lizards of the Subfamily Lygosominae". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 117 (17): 1–35. (Sphenomorphus...
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Subdoluseps nilgiriensis (category Lygosominae stubs)
Datta-Roy, A. (2021). "A new species of Asian gracile skink (Scincidae: Lygosominae: Subdoluseps) from the rain-shadow belts of Nilgiri hills, Western Ghats...
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were previously found to belong the Mabuya group in the large subfamily Lygosominae. They have a pantropical distribution, being found throughout the tropics...
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and genetic variation in the Australian lizards of the genus Pseudemoia (Scincidae: Lygosominae)". Journal of Natural History 26 (1): 215–264. v t e...
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Tropidophorus beccarii (category Lygosominae stubs)
skink and Beccari's water skink, is a species of lizard in the subfamily Lygosominae of the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the island of Borneo...
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been found to belong to the Eugongylus group of genera in the subfamily Lygosominae; the Australian genus Bassiana appears to be fairly closely related....
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genus Carlia, commonly known as four-fingered skinks, from the subfamily Lygosominae. It is native to desert woodland regions throughout most of the Northern...
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Mochlus (category Lygosominae stubs)
Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Family: Scincidae Subfamily: Lygosominae Genus: Mochlus Günther, 1864...
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for African, Asian and Indian supple and writhing skinks (Scincidae: Lygosominae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 186 (4): 1067–1096. doi:10...
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Trachylepis infralineata (category Lygosominae stubs)
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