Lipinia

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

Lipinia
Lipinia noctua
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Subfamily: Sphenomorphinae
Genus: Lipinia
Gray, 1845
Species

32, see text.

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) – Cheesman's lipinia[2]
  • Lipinia inconspicua (Müller, 1894)
  • Lipinia inexpectata Das & C. Austin, 2007
  • Lipinia infralineolata (A. Günther, 1873)
  • Lipinia leptosoma (W. Brown & Fehlmann, 1958)
  • Lipinia longiceps (Boulenger, 1895)
  • Lipinia macrotympana (Stoliczka, 1873) – big-eared lipinia
  • Lipinia miangensis (F. Werner, 1910)
  • Lipinia microcercus (Boettger, 1901)
  • 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 trivittata Poyarkov, Geissler, Gorin, Dunayev, Hartmann & Suwannapoom, 2019
  • Lipinia vassilievi Poyarkov, Geissler, Gorin, Dunayev, Hartmann & Suwannapoom, 2019
  • 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
  1. "Lipinia ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. 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. (Lipinia cheesmanae, p. 52).

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).
  • 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)


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