Liopholis
Liopholis is a genus of skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae.[2] Species of the genus are found in the Australian region. They were previously placed in the genus Egernia.[1]
| Liopholis | |
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| White's skink (Liopholis whitii) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Egerniinae |
| Genus: | Liopholis Fitzinger, 1843 |
| Type species | |
| Lygosoma moniligera A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839 | |
| Species | |
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12 species (see text) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Flamoscincus | |
Description
Liopholis are smallish to largish-sized skinks. They may attain an adult snout-vent length (SVL) of 75–200 mm (3.0–7.9 in), with a bulky angular body. They have 34–52 rows of midbody scales; dorsal scales are usually smooth. The nasal scale has no postnarial groove; the subocular scale row is incomplete. The eyes are relatively large, and the eyelids usually have conspicuous cream-coloured margins.[1]
Species
There are 12 recognized species:[2]
- Liopholis guthega Donnellan, Hutchinson, Dempsey & Osborne, 2002 – Snowy Mountains skink, guthega skink, alpine egernia
- Liopholis inornata (Rosén, 1905) – desert egernia, unadorned desert-skink, "desert skink"
- Liopholis kintorei (Stirling & Zietz, 1893) – Great Desert skink
- Liopholis margaretae (Storr, 1968) – Centralian Ranges rock-skink, Flinder's Ranges rock-skink
- Liopholis modesta (Storr, 1968) – Eastern Ranges rock-skink
- Liopholis montana Donnellan, Hutchinson, Dempsey & Osborne, 2002 – montane rock-skink, mountain egernia, "mountain skink"
- Liopholis multiscutata (Mitchell & Behrndt, 1949) – bull skink, southern sand-skink, heath skink
- Liopholis personata (Storr, 1968)
- Liopholis pulchra (F. Werner, 1910) – southwestern rock-skink, spectacled rock skink, Jurien Bay rock-skink
- Liopholis slateri (Storr, 1968) – Slater's desert skink, Centralian Floodplains desert-skink, Slater's egernia, Slater's skink
- Liopholis striata (Sternfeld, 1919) – night skink, nocturnal desert-skink, striated egernia
- Liopholis whitii (Lacépède, 1804) – White's skink, White's rock-skink
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Liopholis.
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Liopholis. |
- Gardner, Michael G.; Hugall, Andrew F.; Donnellan, Stephen C.; Hutchinson, Mark N.; Foster, Ralph (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.
- Liopholis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 September 2018.
Further reading
- Fitzinger L (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae. Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (Liopholis, new genus, p. 22). (in Latin).