Eremiascincus is a genus of skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to Australia, Indonesia, and East Timor.[2]
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| Eremiascincus richardsonii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Sphenomorphinae |
| Genus: | Eremiascincus Greer, 1979[1] |
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15 sp., see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Glaphyromorphus | |
Species edit
The genus contains the following 15 valid species, listed alphabetically by specific name.[2]
- Eremiascincus antoniorum (M.A. Smith, 1927)
- Eremiascincus brongersmai (Storr, 1972) – brown-sided bar-lipped skink
- Eremiascincus butlerorum (Aplin, How & Boeadi, 1993)
- Eremiascincus douglasi (Storr, 1967) – orange-sided bar-lipped skink
- Eremiascincus emigrans (Lidth de Jeude, 1895)
- Eremiascincus fasciolatus (Günther, 1867) – narrow-banded sand-swimmer, thick-tailed skink
- Eremiascincus intermedius (Sternfeld, 1919) – northern narrow–banded skink
- Eremiascincus isolepis (Boulenger, 1887) – northern bar-lipped skink, short-legged slender skink
- Eremiascincus musivus Mecke, Doughty & Donnellan, 2009 – mosaic desert skink
- Eremiascincus pallidus (Günther, 1875) – western sand-swimming skink, western narrow-banded skink
- Eremiascincus pardalis (Macleay, 1877) – lowlands bar-lipped skink
- Eremiascincus phantasmus Mecke, Doughty & Donnellan, 2013 – ghost skink
- Eremiascincus richardsonii (Gray, 1845) – broad-banded sand-swimmer, Richardson's skink
- Eremiascincus rubiginosus Mecke & Doughty, 2018 – rusty skink
- Eremiascincus timorensis (Greer, 1990)
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Eremiascincus.
References edit
- ^ Mecke, Sven; Doughty, Paul; Donnellan, Stephen C. (2009). "A new species of Eremiascincus (Reptilia; Squamata: Scincidae) from the Great Sandy Desert and Pilbara Coast, Western Australia and reassignment of eight species from Glaphyromorphus to Eremiascincus ". Zootaxa 2246: 1-20.
- ^ a b "Eremiascincus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading edit
- Greer AE (1979). "Eremiascincus, a new generic name for some Australian sand swimming skinks (Lacertilia: Scincidae)". Rec. Australian Mus. 32 (7): 321–388. ("Eremiascincus New Genus", p. 323).
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