Eulamprus
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| Water skinks | |
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| Golden Water Skink (Eulamprus quoyii) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia (paraphyletic) |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Lygosominae |
| Genus: | Eulamprus (Lönnberg and Andersson, 1913) |
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Eulamprus, the water skinks, are a genus of skinks in the subfamily Lygosominae. It belongs to a clade in the Sphenomorphus group that contains such genera as Ctenotus and Anomalopus. Even closer related to Eulamprus than these two seems the Prickly Skink (Gnypetoscincus queenslandiae).[1]
[edit] Species[2]
- Eulamprus amplus Covacevich & McDonald, 1980 – Lemon-barred Forest-skink
- Eulamprus brachyosoma (Lönnberg and Andersson, 1915) – Northern Barsided Skink
- Eulamprus frerei Greer, 1992 – Stout Barsided Skink
- Eulamprus heatwolei Wells & Willington, 1983 – Warm-temperate Water-skink
- Eulamprus kosciuskoi Kinghorn, 1932 – Alpine Meadow-skink, Alpine Water Skink
- Eulamprus leuraensis Wells & Willington, 1983 – Blue Mountain Water Skink, Blue Mountain Swamp-skink
- Eulamprus luteilateralis Covacevich & McDonald, 1980 – Orange-speckled Forest-skink
- Eulamprus martini Wells & Willington, 1983 – Dark Barsided Skink
- Eulamprus murrayi (Boulenger, 1887) – Blue-speckled Forest-skink
- Eulamprus quoyii Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 – Golden Water Skink, Eastern Water-skink, Eastern Water Skink
- Eulamprus sokosoma Greer, 1992 – Stout Barsided Skink
- Eulamprus tenuis (Gray, 1831) Bar-sided Forest-skink, Barred-sided Skink
- Eulamprus tigrinus (De Vis, 1888) – Yellow-blotched Forest-skink, Rainforest Water-skink
- Eulamprus tryoni (Longman, 1918) – Border Ranges Blue-spectacled Skink, Forest Skink, Tryon's Skink
- Eulamprus tympanum (Lönnberg and Andersson, 1915) – Southern Water Skink, Cool-temperate Water-skink, Highland Water Skink
Hinulia elegans, described by Grey in 1838, is an unidentified lygosomine that may be Eulamprus tenuis.[3]
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- 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)
- Shea, G.M. & Michels, J.P. (2008): A replacement name for Sphenomorphus keiensis (Kopstein, 1926) from the southeastern Moluccas, Indonesia (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) with a redescription of the species. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 82(52): 737-747. PDF
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