Liopholis

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Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincomorpha

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Infraordo: Scincomorpha

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Egerniinae
Genus: Liopholis
Species (15): L. aputja – L. guthega – L. inornata – L. kintorei – L. margaretae – L. modesta – L. montana – L. multiscutata – L. parva – L. personata – L. pulchra – L. purnululu – L. slateri – L. striata – L. whitii

Name

Liopholis Fitzinger, 1843: 22

• Type species: Lygosoma moniligera Duméril & Bibron, 1839, by original designation.

Synonyms

• Flamoscincus Wells & Wellington, 1984: 94 [synonymised by Gardner et al. (2008: 791)]
  • Type species: Egernia kintorei Stirling & Zietz, 1893, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus. Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel: Wien. vi + 106 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. [1983] 1984. A synopsis of the class Reptilia in Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology 1(3–4): 73–129. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Gardner, M.G., Hugall, A.F., Donnellan, S.C., Hutchinson, M.N. & Foster, R. 2008. Molecular systematics of social skinks: phylogeny and taxonomy of the Egernia group (Reptilia: Scincidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 154(4): 781–794. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00422.x . Reference page. 
• Farquhar, J.E., Mulder, J.A., Russell, W., Haines, M.L., Rangers, A. & Chapple, D.G. 2024. A new species of rock skink (Scincidae: Liopholis) from the Central Ranges bioregion of arid Australia. Zootaxa 5536(1): 153–177. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5536.1.6 Reference page. 
• †Aplin, K.P., Maryan, B., Armstrong, K.N., Pavey, C.R. & Donnellan, S.C. 2024. Molecular and morphological assessment of the Liopholis inornata (Rosén, 1905) species group (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae), with descriptions of two new species from northern Western Australia. Zootaxa 5551(2): 299–332. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5551.2.4 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2026. Liopholis . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 29 January 2025.

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