Carlia

Carlia
Carlia ailanpalai
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia (paraphyletic)
Order: Squamata (paraphyletic)
Family: Scincidae
Subfamily: Lygosominae
Genus: Carlia
Gray, 1845[1]

Carlia is a genus of skinks, commonly known as four-fingered skinks, in the subfamily Lygosominae. Carlia belongs to a clade with the genera Niveoscincus, Lampropholis, and possibly others of the Eugongylus group.[2]

Species

The genus Carlia contains the following species (n.b. a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Carlia):[3]

  • Carlia aenigma (Zug, 2004)
  • Carlia ailanpalai (Zug, 2004)
  • Carlia amax (Storr, 1974) – bauxite rainbow-skink
  • Carlia aramia (Zug, 2004)
  • Carlia babarensis (Kopstein, 1926)
  • Carlia beccarii (W. Peters & Doria, 1878)
  • Carlia bicarinata (Macleay, 1877) – rainbow-skink
  • Carlia bomberai (Zug & Allison, 2006)
  • Carlia caesius (Zug & Allison, 2006)
  • Carlia coensis (Mitchell, 1953) – Coen rainbow-skink
  • Carlia diguliensis (Kopstein, 1926)
  • Carlia dogare (Covacevich & Ingram, 1975) – sandy rainbow-skink
  • Carlia eothen (Zug, 2004)
  • Carlia fusca (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Indonesian brown skink
  • Carlia gracilis (Storr, 1974) – slender rainbow-skink
  • Carlia jarnoldae (Covacevich & Ingram, 1975) – lined rainbow-skink
  • Carlia johnstonei (Storr, 1974) – rough brown rainbow-skink
  • Carlia leucotaenia (Bleeker, 1860)
  • Carlia longipes (Macleay, 1877) – closed-litter rainbow-skink
  • Carlia luctuosa (W. Peters & Doria, 1878)
  • Carlia munda (De Vis, 1885) – shaded-litter rainbow-skink
  • Carlia mundivensis (Broom, 1898) – outcrop rainbow-skink
  • Carlia mysi (Zug, 2004)
  • Carlia parrhasius (Couper, Covacevich & Lethbridge, 1994) – fire-tailed rainbow-skink
  • Carlia pectoralis (De Vis, 1885) – open-litter rainbow-skink
  • Carlia peronii (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839)
  • Carlia prava (Covacevich & Ingram, 1978)
  • Carlia pulla (T. Barbour, 1911)
  • Carlia rhomboidalis (W. Peters, 1869) – blue-throated rainbow-skink
  • Carlia rimula (Ingram & Covacevich, 1980) – crevice rainbow-skink
  • Carlia rostralis (De Vis, 1885) – black-throated rainbow-skink, hooded rainbow skink
  • Carlia rubrigularis (Ingram & Covacevich, 1989) – red-throated rainbow-skink, northern red-throated skink
  • Carlia rufilatus (Storr, 1974) – red-sided rainbow-skink
  • Carlia schlegelii (W. Peters, 1864)
  • Carlia schmeltzii (W. Peters, 1867) – robust rainbow-skink, Schmeltz’s skink
  • Carlia scirtetis (Ingram & Covacevich, 1980) – Black Mountain rainbow-skink
  • Carlia storri (Ingram & Covacevich, 1989) – brown bicarinate rainbow-skink
  • Carlia tetradactyla (O'Shaughnessy, 1879) – southern rainbow-skink
  • Carlia triacantha (Mitchell, 1953) – desert rainbow-skink
  • Carlia tutela (Zug, 2004)
  • Carlia vivax (De Vis, 1884) – tussock rainbow-skink
  • Carlia wundalthini (Hoskin, 2014) – Cape Melville rainbow skink

References

  1. ↑ ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
  2. ↑ J. J. Austin & E. N. Arnold (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.
  3. ↑ Carlia, Reptile Database.


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