Eulamprus

Eulamprus
Eulamprus quoyii (golden water skink)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia (paraphyletic)
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Sauria
Infraorder:	Scincomorpha
Family:	Scincidae
Subfamily:	Lygosominae
Genus:	Eulamprus Fitzinger, 1843
Species
15, see text

Eulamprus, the water skinks, are a genus of skinks in the subfamily Lygosominae. The genus Eulamprus belongs to a clade in the Sphenomorphus group that contains other genera such as Ctenotus and Anomalopus. Even closer related to Eulamprus than these two genera, seems to be Gnypetoscincus queenslandiae (the prickly skink).

Species

• 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 & Wellington, 1983 – warm-temperate water-skink
• Eulamprus kosciuskoi Kinghorn, 1932 – alpine meadow-skink, alpine water skink
• Eulamprus leuraensis Wells & Wellington, 1983 – Blue Mountains water skink, Blue Mountain swamp-skink
• Eulamprus luteilateralis Covacevich & McDonald, 1980 – orange-speckled forest-skink
• Eulamprus martini Wells & Wellington, 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 Gray in 1838, is an unidentified lygosomine that may be Eulamprus tenuis.

Further reading

• 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).
• Fitzinger, L. (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae. Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (Eulamprus, new genus, p. 22). (in Latin).
• 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.