Emoia

Emoia
Pacific bluetail skink (Emoia caeruleocauda)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Subfamily:	Lygosominae
Genus:	Emoia Gray, 1845
Species
About 75, see text
Synonyms
Emoa Girard, 1857

Emoia is a genus of skinks in the subfamily Lygosominae. It belongs to a group of genera mainly from the southwestern Pacific-Australian region. The group also includes the genus Leiolopisma.^[1]

These small skinks are commonly known as emoias.

Species

Emoia adspersa (Steindachner, 1870) – dark-sided emoia, dark-sided skink, dateline emoia Emoia aenea Emoia ahli Emoia aneityumensis Emoia arnoensis W.C. Brown & Marshall, 1953 – Arno skink Emoia atrocostata (Lesson, 1826) – littoral skink Emoia aurulenta Emoia battersbyi (Procter, 1923) Emoia bismarckensis Emoia boettgeri (Sternfeld, 1920) – Boettger's skink Emoia bogerti Emoia brongersmai Emoia caeruleocauda (De Vis, 1892) – Pacific bluetail skink, Marianas blue-tailed skink Emoia callisticta Emoia campbelli Emoia coggeri Emoia concolor Emoia cyanogaster (Lesson, 1826) – blue-bellied skink Emoia cyanura (Lesson, 1826) – azure-tailed emoia, copper-tailed emoia Emoia cyclops Emoia digul Emoia erronan

Emoia flavigularis Emoia guttata Emoia impar (F. Werner, 1898) – copper striped blue-tailed skink[2] Emoia irianensis Emoia isolata Emoia jakati (Kopstein, 1926) – Jakati emoia, Kopstein's skink Emoia jamur Emoia kitcheneri Emoia klossi Emoia kordoana Emoia kuekenthali Emoia laobaoense Emoia lawesi (Günther, 1874) – Lawes' skink Emoia longicauda (Macleay, 1877) Emoia loveridgei Emoia loyaltiensis Emoia maculata Emoia maxima Emoia mivarti (Boulenger, 1887) – Mivart's skink Emoia mokosariniveikau Emoia montana Emoia nativitatis Emoia nigra (Jacquinot & Guichenot, 1853) – black skink Emoia nigromarginata Emoia obscura

Emoia oribata Emoia pallidiceps Emoia paniai Emoia parkeri Emoia physicae Emoia physicina Emoia ponapea Kiester, 1982 – Ponape Forest skink Emoia popei Emoia pseudocyanura Emoia pseudopallidiceps Emoia reimschisseli Emoia rennellensis Emoia ruficauda Emoia rufilabialis Emoia samoensis (A.H.A. Duméril in A.M.C. Duméril & A.H.A. Duméril, 1851) – Samoan skink Emoia sanfordi Emoia schmidti Emoia similis Emoia slevini W.C. Brown & Falanruw, 1972 – Slevin's skink, Marianas emoia Emoia sorex Emoia submetallica Emoia taumakoensis Emoia tetrataenia Emoia tongana Emoia tropidolepis Emoia trossula Emoia veracunda

References

1. Austin, J. J. and 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): 503–11. (HTML abstract)
2. Another vertebrate species reported extinct from the Hawaiian Islands. United States Geological Survey. March 20, 2012.