''Carlia'' is a
genus
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of
skink
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s, commonly known as four-fingered skinks or rainbow skinks, in the
subfamily
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Eugongylinae. 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'', ''
Lampropholis'', and others of the ''
Eugongylus'' group within
Lygosominae.
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''):
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Carlia aenigma''
(Zug
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, 2004) – enigmatic rainbow skink
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Carlia ailanpalai''
(Zug, 2004) – curious skink
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Carlia amax''
( Storr, 1974) – bauxite rainbow-skink
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Carlia aramia''
(Zug, 2004) – Aramia rainbow skink
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Carlia babarensis''
( Kopstein, 1926)
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Carlia beccarii''
( W. Peters & Doria, 1878)
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Carlia bicarinata''
( Macleay, 1877) – rainbow-skink
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Carlia bomberai''
(Zug & Allison, 2006)
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Carlia caesius''
(Zug & Allison, 2006)
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Carlia crypta''
Singhal, Hoskin, Couper, Potter & Moritz, 2018
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Carlia decora''
Hoskin & Couper, 2012 – elegant rainbow-skink
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Carlia diguliensis''
(Kopstein, 1926) – Digul River rainbow skink
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Carlia dogare''
( Covacevich & Ingram, 1975) – sandy rainbow-skink
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Carlia eothen''
(Zug, 2004)
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Carlia fusca''
( A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – brown four-fingered skink, Indonesian brown skink
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Carlia gracilis''
(Storr, 1974) – slender rainbow-skink
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Carlia inconnexa''
Ingram & Covacevich, 1989 – Whitsunday rainbow-skink
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Carlia insularis''
Afonso-Silva, Santos, Ogilvie & Moritz, 2017 – Kimberley islands rainbow-skink
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Carlia isostriacantha''
Afonso-Silva, Santos, Ogilvie & Moritz, 2017 – Monsoonal three-keeled rainbow-skink
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Carlia jarnoldae''
(Covacevich & Ingram, 1975) – lined rainbow-skink
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Carlia johnstonei''
(Storr, 1974) – rough brown rainbow-skink
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Carlia leucotaenia''
( Bleeker, 1860)
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Carlia longipes''
(Macleay, 1877) – closed-litter rainbow-skink
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Carlia luctuosa''
(W. Peters & Doria, 1878)
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Carlia munda''
( De Vis, 1885) – shaded-litter rainbow-skink
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Carlia mysi''
(Zug, 2004) – Mys's rainbow skink
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Carlia nigrauris''
(Zug, 2010)
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Carlia pectoralis''
(De Vis, 1885) – open-litter rainbow-skink
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Carlia peronii''
(A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839)
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Carlia pulla''
( T. Barbour, 1911)
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Carlia quinquecarinata''
(Macleay, 1877) – five-keeled rainbow-skink, five-carinated rainbow-skink
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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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(W. Peters, 1869) – blue-throated rainbow-skink
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Carlia rostralis''
(De Vis, 1885) – black-throated rainbow-skink, hooded rainbow skink
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Carlia rubigo''
Hoskin & Couper, 2012 – orange-flanked rainbow-skink
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Carlia rubrigularis''
(Ingram & Covacevich, 1989) – red-throated rainbow-skink, northern red-throated skink
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Carlia rufilatus''
(Storr, 1974) – red-sided rainbow-skink
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Carlia schmeltzii''
(W. Peters, 1867) – robust rainbow-skink,
Schmeltz's skink
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Carlia sexdentata''
(Macleay, 1877) – six-toothed rainbow-skink
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Carlia spinauris''
(Smith, 1927)
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Carlia storri''
(Ingram & Covacevich, 1989) – brown bicarinate rainbow-skink
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Carlia sukur''
Zug & Kaiser
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, 2014 – Sukur four-toed skink
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Carlia tetradactyla''
( O'Shaughnessy, 1879) – southern rainbow-skink
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Carlia triacantha''
( Mitchell, 1953) –
desert rainbow-skink
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Carlia tutela''
(Zug, 2004)
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Carlia vivax''
(De Vis, 1884) – lively rainbow-skink, tussock rainbow-skink
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Carlia wundalthini''
(Hoskin, 2014) – Cape Melville rainbow skink
See also
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Carlina (name)
References
Further reading
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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.
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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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Lizard genera
Taxa named by John Edward Gray
Skinks of Australia