''Tropidoscincus'' is a genus 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 ...
. They are all endemic to
New Caledonia
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.
Classification
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Tropidoscincus aubrianus''
Bocage, 1873 – Aubrey's whiptailed skink
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Tropidoscincus boreus''
Sadlier & Bauer, 2000 – northern whiptailed skink
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Tropidoscincus variabilis''
(Bavay, 1869) – southern whiptailed skink
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Nota bene
( ; plural: ) is the Latin language, Latin phrase meaning ''note well''.
In manuscripts, ''nota bene'' is abbreviated in upper-case as NB and N.B., and in lower-case as n.b. and nb; the editorial usages of ''nota bene'' and ''notate bene'' fi ...
'': A
binomial authority
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, altho ...
in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Tropidoscincus''.
References
Lizard genera
Taxa named by José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage
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