Anomalopus

Anomalopus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia (paraphyletic)
(unranked):	Sauria
Order:	Squamata (paraphyletic)
Infraorder:	Scincomorpha
Family:	Scincidae
Subfamily:	Lygosominae
Genus:	Anomalopus A.M.C. Duméril & A.H.A. Duméril, 1851
Species
8, see text.

Anomalopus is the genus of worm-skinks, smallish smooth-scaled burrowing skinks (family Scincidae) from the eastern half of Australia. It belongs to a clade in the Sphenomorphus group which contains such genera as Ctenotus and the close relatives Eulamprus and Gnypetoscincus (Austin & Arnold 2006).

Species

• Anomalopus brevicollis Greer and Cogger, 1985 – short-necked worm-skink (NE Australia)
• Anomalopus gowi Greer and Cogger, 1985 – speckled worm-skink (NE Australia)
• Anomalopus leuckartii (Weinland, 1862) – two-clawed worm-skink (eastern Australia)
• Anomalopus mackayi, Greer & Cogger, 1985 – five-clawed worm-skink (eastern Australia)
• Anomalopus pluto Ingram, 1977 – Cape York worm-skink (NE Australia)
• Anomalopus swansoni Greer and Cogger, 1985 – punctate worm-skink (east coastal Australia)
• Anomalopus verreauxi A.M.C. Dumeril & A.H.A. Dumeril, 1851 – three-clawed worm-skink

References

• 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)

Further reading

• Duméril AMC, Duméril AHA. 1851. Catalogue méthodique de la collection des reptiles du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Paris: Gide & Baudry/Roret. 224 pp. (Anomalopus, new genus, p. 185). (in French).

External links

• Worm skinks