Unidentified Eutropis species from Wayanad (Kerala, India)
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
Squamata
Family:
Scincidae
Subfamily:
Lygosominae Mittleman, 1952
Lygosominae is the largest subfamily of skinks in the family Scincidae. The subfamily can be divided into a number of genus groups. If the rarely used taxonomic rank of infrafamily is employed, the genus groups would be designated as such, but such a move would require a formal description according to the ICZN standards.[1]
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Lygosominae is the largest subfamily of skinks in the family Scincidae. The subfamily can be divided into a number of genus groups. If the rarely used...
of the family Scincidae. Lygosoma is the type genus of the subfamily Lygosominae. The common name, writhing skinks, refers to the way these stubby-legged...
previously found to belong the Egernia group in the large subfamily Lygosominae. The subfamily Egerniinae contains 63 species in 8 genera. Uetz, P.;...
genus of lizards, known commonly as emerald skinks, in the subfamily Lygosominae of the family Scincidae. Lygosoma is its closest genetic relative. Species...
previously found to belong the Eugongylus group in the large subfamily Lygosominae. The subfamily Eugongylinae contains 469 species in 51 genera. Ablepharus...
(boulenger, 1894) complex of Philippine forest skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Lygosominae) with descriptions of seven new species’, Zootaxa, 3700(4), p. 501. doi:10...
margaritifera) is a species of Afro-Malagasy mabuya or skink in the subfamily Lygosominae. Mabuya quinquetaeniata margaritifera, formerly a subspecies of Trachylepis...
Euprepis is an obsolete genus of skinks in the subfamily Lygosominae. It was named by Wagler in 1830 and frequently used in subsequent years, often misspelled...
of the Skink Lampropholis delicata (De Vis, 1888) (Sauria: Scincidae: Lygosominae) by the Red-back Spider Latrodectus hasseltii Thorell, 1870 (Aranea:...
Niveoscincus, Leiolopisma and others of the Eugongylus group within Lygosominae. All species of Lampropholis are endemic to Australia. For similar skinks...
is considered closely related to Mabuya, but even among the subfamily Lygosominae this genus does not seem to be particularly closely related and would—were...
be the only member of the genus Saiphos. It belongs to the subfamily Lygosominae of the skink family Scincidae. Phylogenetic analysis in 2003 showed that...
Chioninia is a genus of skinks, lizards in the subfamily Lygosominae. For long, this genus was included in the "wastebin taxon" Mabuya. The genus Chioninia...
Concinnia is a genus of skinks in the subfamily Lygosominae. The genus Concinnia belongs to the Australian Sphenomorphid clade that contains other genera...
subfamilies of the family Scincidae, the other two being Acontinae and Lygosominae. The subfamily Scincinae contains the following 35 genera, of which seven...
Datta-Roy, A. (2021). "A new species of Asian gracile skink (Scincidae: Lygosominae: Subdoluseps) from the rain-shadow belts of Nilgiri hills, Western Ghats...
previously found to belong to the Sphenomorphus group in the large subfamily Lygosominae. The subfamily Sphenomorphinae contains 591 species in 41 genera. Anomalopus...
were previously found to belong the Mabuya group in the large subfamily Lygosominae. They have a pantropical distribution, being found throughout the tropics...
genera Carlia, Lampropholis and others of the Eugongylus group within Lygosominae. Cogger has rejected the use of the junior name Niveoscincus and recognizes...
Alcala AC (19999). "New Species of Diminutive Scincid Lizard (Squamata: Lygosominae: Sphenomorphus) from Luzon Island, Republic of the Philippines". Copeia...
Mittleman MB (1952). "A Generic Synopsis of the Lizards of the Subfamily Lygosominae". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 117 (17): 1–35. (Sphenomorphus...
previously recognised as namesake of the Eugonglyus group of genera within Lygosominae, where it occupied a quite basal position. Members of this genus are...
for African, Asian and Indian supple and writhing skinks (Scincidae: Lygosominae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 186 (4): 1067–1096. doi:10...
Niveoscincus, Lampropholis, and others of the Eugongylus group within Lygosominae. The genus Carlia contains the following species (n.b., a binomial authority...
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