Proablepharus
Appearance
Proablepharus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Scincidae |
Subfamily: | Eugongylinae |
Genus: | Proablepharus Fuhn, 1969[1] |
Proablepharus is a genus of skinks endemic to Australia.
Species
Five species are recognized.[2]
- Proablepharus barrylyoni Couper et al., 2010
- Proablepharus kinghorni (Copland, 1947) – Kinghorn's snake-eyed skink[3]
- Proablepharus naranjicaudus Greer, Fisher & Horner, 2004
- Proablepharus reginae (Glauert, 1960)
- Proablepharus tenuis (Broom, 1896)
References
- ^ "Proablepharus ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/scincidae/eugongylinae.
- ^ "Proablepharus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Proablepharus kinghorni, p. 141).
Further reading
- Fuhn IE (1969). "The “polyphyletic” origin of the genus Ablepharus (Reptilia: Scincidae). A case of parallel evolution". Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionforschung 7: 67-76. (Proablepharus, new genus).