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''Concinnia'' is a
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
skink Skinks are a type of lizard belonging to the family (biology), family Scincidae, a family in the Taxonomic rank, infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different taxonomic genera, the family Scincidae is one o ...
s in the
subfamily In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end botanical subfamily names with "-oideae", and zo ...
Sphenomorphinae Sphenomorphinae is a large subfamily of skinks, lizards within the family Scincidae. The genera in this subfamily were previously found to belong to the ''Sphenomorphus'' group in the large subfamily Lygosominae. Genera The subfamily Sphenomo ...
.


Taxonomy and systematics

The genus ''Concinnia'' belongs to the Australian Sphenomorphid
clade In biology, a clade (), also known as a Monophyly, monophyletic group or natural group, is a group of organisms that is composed of a common ancestor and all of its descendants. Clades are the fundamental unit of cladistics, a modern approach t ...
that contains other
genera Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial s ...
such as ''
Ctenotus ''Ctenotus'' is a genus of skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to Australia. The genus ''Ctenotus'' belongs to a clade in the ''Sphenomorphus'' group which contains such genera as '' Anomalopus'' and the close relatives ...
'', '' Anomalopus'' and the ''
Eulamprus ''Eulamprus'' is a genus of lizards, commonly known as water skinks, in the subfamily Sphenomorphinae of the family Scincidae. The genus is native to Australia. Taxonomy The genus ''Eulamprus'' belongs to a clade in the ''Sphenomorphus'' grou ...
'' water skinks. This genus was raised by Skinner et al.(2013) based on molecular phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences, which showed that five sampled species from the ''Eulamprus tenuis'' group formed a well supported clade with the then monotypic genera '' Gnypetoscincus'' and '' Nangura''. Wells and Wellington (1983) coined the name ''Concinnia'' and applied it to the ''Eulamprus tenuis'' group delimited by Greer (1989). Although this ''tenuis'' group may form a clade it did not receive strong support in molecular phylogenetic analyses, with ''C. amplus'' and ''C. frerei'' forming deep lineages of uncertain position relative to ''C. queenslandiae'' and ''C. spinosus''. Consequently, Skinner et al. (2013) united the well supported broader clade, including ''Gnypetoscincus'' and ''Nangura'' in ''Concinnia'', including ''C. frerei'' and ''C. sokosoma'' based on the work of O'Connor and Moritz (2003). Skinner et al. (2013) further restricted the genus ''Eulamprus'' to the water skinks assigned by Greer (1989) to the ''Eulamprus quoyii'' group and created two new genera, ''
Silvascincus ''Silvascincus'' is a genus of skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae. Both species in the genus are endemic to Australia. They were previously placed in the genus '' Eulamprus''. Species The following two species, listed alphabetically by spe ...
'' for species in Greer's (1989) '' Eulamprus murrayi'' group (including ''E. murrayi'' and ''E. tryoni''), and '' Tumbunascincus'' for '' Eulamprus luteilateralis''.


Species

There are currently 7 recognized species: * '' Concinnia ampla'' Covacevich & McDonald, 1980 – lemon-barred forest-skink * '' Concinnia brachyosoma'' ( Lönnberg and
Andersson Andersson is a Swedish language surname, a form of the surname Anderson. ''Andersson'' is, if several spelling variants are included, the most common surname in Sweden.Concinnia frerei'' Greer, 1992 – stout barsided skink * '' Concinnia martini'' Wells & Wellington, 1983 – dark barsided skink * '' Concinnia sokosoma'' Greer, 1992 – stout barsided skink * '' Concinnia tenuis'' (
Gray Grey (more frequent in British English) or gray (more frequent in American English) is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning that it has no chroma. It is the color of a cloud-covered s ...
, 1831)
bar-sided forest-skink, barred-sided skink * '' Concinnia tigrina'' (
De Vis Charles Walter de Vis (9 May 1829 – 30 April 1915)
Hinulia elegans'', described by Gray in 1838, is an unidentified lygosomine that may be '' Concinnia tenuis''.Shea & Michels (2008).


References


Further reading

* (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. (HTML abstract). * (1843). ''Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae''. Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (''Eulamprus'', new genus, p. 22). (in Latin). * (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 ''Zoologische Mededelingen'' was a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal publishing papers and monographs on animal systematics. The publisher was the National Museum of Natural History Naturalis in the Netherlands. The first issue appeared ...
Leiden'' 82 (52): 737–747
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. Lizard genera Taxa named by Richard Walter Wells Taxa named by Cliff Ross Wellington {{sphenomorphinae-stub