Eremiascincus

Eremiascincus
Eremiascincus richardsonii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Scincidae
Genus:Eremiascincus
Greer, 1979[1]
Species

15 sp., see text

Synonyms

Glaphyromorphus
Wells & Wellington, 1984

Eremiascincus is a genus of skinks endemic to Australia, Indonesia and East Timor.[2]

Species

The genus contains the following 15 valid species, listed alphabetically by specific name.[2]

  • Eremiascincus antoniorum (M.A. Smith, 1927)
  • Eremiascincus brongersmai (Storr, 1972) – brown-sided bar-lipped skink
  • Eremiascincus butlerorum (Aplin, How & Boeadi, 1993)
  • Eremiascincus douglasi (Storr, 1967) – orange-sided bar-lipped skink
  • Eremiascincus emigrans (Lidth de Jeude, 1895)
  • Eremiascincus fasciolatus (Günther, 1867) – narrow-banded sand-swimmer
  • Eremiascincus intermedius (Sternfeld, 1919)
  • Eremiascincus isolepis (Boulenger, 1887) – northern bar-lipped skink
  • Eremiascincus musivus Mecke, Doughty & Donnellan, 2009 – mosaic desert skink
  • Eremiascincus pallidus (Günther, 1875)
  • Eremiascincus pardalis (Macleay, 1877) – lowlands bar-lipped skink
  • Eremiascincus phantasmus Mecke, Doughty & Donnellan, 2013
  • Eremiascincus richardsonii (Gray, 1845) – broad-banded sand-swimmer
  • Eremiascincus rubiginosus Mecke & Doughty, 2018
  • Eremiascincus timorensis (Greer, 1990)

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

References

  1. ↑ Mecke, Sven; Doughty, Paul; Donnellan, Stephen C. (2009). "A new species of Eremiascincus (Reptilia; Squamata: Scincidae) from the Great Sandy Desert and Pilbara Coast, Western Australia and reassignment of eight species from Glaphyromorphus to Eremiascincus ". Zootaxa 2246: 1-20.
  2. 1 2 "Eremiascincus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

  • Greer AE (1979). "Eremiascincus, a new generic name for some Australian sand swimming skinks (Lacertilia: Scincidae)". Rec. Australian Mus. 32 (7): 321-388. ("Eremiascincus New Genus", p. 323).


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