Proablepharus

Proablepharus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Scincidae
Genus:Proablepharus
Fuhn, 1969[1]

Proablepharus is a genus of skinks endemic to Australia.

Species

Five species are recognized.[2]

  • Proablepharus barrylyoni Couper et al., 2010
  • Proablepharus kinghorni (Copland, 1947) – Kinghorn's snake-eyed skink[3]
  • Proablepharus naranjicaudus Greer, Fisher & Horner, 2004
  • Proablepharus reginae (Glauert, 1960)
  • Proablepharus tenuis (Broom, 1896)

References

  1. ↑ "Proablepharus ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/scincidae/eugongylinae.
  2. ↑ "Proablepharus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Proablepharus kinghorni, p. 141).

Further reading

  • Fuhn IE (1969). "The “polyphyletic” origin of the genus Ablepharus (Reptilia: Scincidae). A case of parallel evolution". Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionforschung 7: 67-76. (Proablepharus, new genus).


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