genus
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skink
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s, commonly known as four-fingered skinks or rainbow skinks, in the
subfamily
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Eugongylinae
Eugongylinae is a subfamily of skinks within the family Scincidae. The genera in this subfamily were previously found to belong the '' Eugongylus'' group in the large subfamily Lygosominae.
Genera
The subfamily Eugongylinae contains 469 speci ...
. Before being placed in this new subfamily, ''Carlia'' was recovered in a
clade
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with the
genera
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Niveoscincus
''Carinascincus'' is a genus of skinks (family Scincidae), commonly called snow skinks or cool-skinks and residing mainly in Tasmania or Victoria, Australia. Then recognised as the genus ''Niveoscincus'', it was found to belong to a clade with ...
'', ''
Lampropholis
''Lampropholis'' is a genus of skinks, commonly known as sunskinks, in the lizard subfamily Eugongylinae of the family Scincidae. The genus ''Lampropholis'' was previously found to belong to a clade with the genera ''Niveoscincus'', '' Leiolop ...
'', and others of the ''
Eugongylus
''Eugongylus'' is a genus of skinks in the subfamily Eugongylinae. It was previously recognised as namesake of the ''Eugonglyus'' group of genera within Lygosominae, where it occupied a quite basal position. Members of this genus are commonly ca ...
'' group within
Lygosominae
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.
Species
The genus ''Carlia'' contains the following species ( n.b., a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Carlia''):
*'' Carlia aenigma'' (
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Carlia amax
''Carlia amax'' is a species of skink, commonly known as the bauxite rainbow-skink, in the genus ''Carlia''. It is native to northern Australia
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Allison
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, 1839) – brown four-fingered skink, Indonesian brown skink
*'' Carlia gracilis'' (Storr, 1974) – slender rainbow-skink
*'' Carlia inconnexa'' Ingram & Covacevich, 1989 – Whitsunday rainbow-skink
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Carlia insularis
''Carlia insularis'', the Kimberley islands rainbow-skink, is a species of skink. It is endemic to the islands of the Bonaparte Archipelago in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It measures in snout–vent length
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Santos
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Carlia isostriacantha
''Carlia isostriacantha'', the Monsoonal three-keeled rainbow-skink, is a species of skink. It is endemic to Australia; most records are from the Kimberley (Western Australia), Kimberley region in Western Australia, but there are also some recor ...
Carlia rhomboidalis
''Carlia rhomboidalis'', the blue-throated rainbow-skink, is a species of skink in the genus '' Carlia''. It is endemic to Queensland, Australia
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O'Shaughnessy
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Carlina (name) Carlina is a feminine given name that is a diminutive form of Carla and Carlotta. Notable people referred to by this name include the following:
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*Carlina Durán Baldera, birthname of Carola Durán (born 1987), Dominican model and beau ...
References
Further reading
* Dolman G, Hugall AF (2008). "Combined mitochondrial and nuclear data enhance resolution of a rapid radiation of Australian rainbow skinks (Scincidae: ''Carlia'')". ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' 49 (3): 782–794.
* Gray JE (1845). ''Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum.'' London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxviii + 289 pp. (''Carlia'', new genus, p. 271).
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