| Carlia | |
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| Carlia rubrigularis | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Class: | Reptilia | 
| Order: | Squamata | 
| Family: | Scincidae | 
| Subfamily: | Eugongylinae | 
| Genus: | Carlia Gray, 1845[1]  | 
Carlia is a genus of skinks, commonly known as four-fingered skinks or rainbow skinks, in the subfamily Eugongylinae.[2] Before being placed in this new subfamily, Carlia was recovered in a clade with the genera Niveoscincus, Lampropholis, and others of the Eugongylus group within Lygosominae.[3]
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):[4]
- Carlia aenigma (Zug, 2004) – enigmatic rainbow skink
 - Carlia ailanpalai (Zug, 2004) – curious skink
 - Carlia amax (Storr, 1974) – bauxite rainbow-skink
 - Carlia aramia (Zug, 2004) – Aramia rainbow skink
 - Carlia babarensis (Kopstein, 1926)
 - Carlia beccarii (W. Peters & Doria, 1878)
 - Carlia bicarinata (Macleay, 1877) – rainbow-skink
 - Carlia bomberai (Zug & Allison, 2006)
 - Carlia caesius (Zug & Allison, 2006)
 - Carlia crypta Singhal, Hoskin, Couper, Potter, & Moritz, 2018
 - Carlia decora Hoskin & Couper, 2012 – elegant rainbow-skink
 - Carlia diguliensis (Kopstein, 1926) – Digul River rainbow skink
 - Carlia dogare (Covacevich & Ingram, 1975) – sandy rainbow-skink
 - Carlia eothen (Zug, 2004)
 - Carlia fusca (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – brown four-fingered skink, Indonesian brown skink
 - Carlia gracilis (Storr, 1974) – slender rainbow-skink
 - Carlia inconnexa Ingram & Covacevich, 1989 – Whitsunday rainbow-skink
 - Carlia insularis Afonso-Silva, Santos, Ogilvie & Moritz, 2017 – Kimberley islands rainbow-skink
 - Carlia isostriacantha Afonso-Silva, Santos, Ogilvie & Moritz, 2017 – Monsoonal three-keeled rainbow-skink
 - Carlia jarnoldae (Covacevich & Ingram, 1975) – lined rainbow-skink
 - Carlia johnstonei (Storr, 1974) – rough brown rainbow-skink
 - Carlia leucotaenia (Bleeker, 1860)
 - Carlia longipes (Macleay, 1877) – closed-litter rainbow-skink
 - Carlia luctuosa (W. Peters & Doria, 1878)
 - Carlia munda (De Vis, 1885) – shaded-litter rainbow-skink
 - Carlia mysi (Zug, 2004) – Mys's rainbow skink
 - Carlia nigrauris (Zug, 2010)
 - Carlia pectoralis (De Vis, 1885) – open-litter rainbow-skink
 - Carlia peronii (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839)
 - Carlia pulla (T. Barbour, 1911)
 - Carlia quinquecarinata (Macleay, 1877) – five-keeled rainbow-skink, five-carinated rainbow-skink
 - Carlia rhomboidalis (W. Peters, 1869) – blue-throated rainbow-skink
 - Carlia rostralis (De Vis, 1885) – black-throated rainbow-skink, hooded rainbow skink
 - Carlia rubigo Hoskin & Couper, 2012 – orange-flanked rainbow-skink
 - Carlia rubrigularis (Ingram & Covacevich, 1989) – red-throated rainbow-skink, northern red-throated skink
 - Carlia rufilatus (Storr, 1974) – red-sided rainbow-skink
 - Carlia schmeltzii (W. Peters, 1867) – robust rainbow-skink, Schmeltz's skink
 - Carlia sexdentata (Macleay, 1877) – six-toothed rainbow-skink
 - Carlia spinauris (Smith, 1927)
 - Carlia storri (Ingram & Covacevich, 1989) – brown bicarinate rainbow-skink
 - Carlia sukur Zug & Kaiser, 2014 – Sukur four-toed skink
 - Carlia tetradactyla (O'Shaughnessy, 1879) – southern rainbow-skink
 - Carlia triacantha (Mitchell, 1953) – desert rainbow-skink
 - Carlia tutela (Zug, 2004)
 - Carlia vivax (De Vis, 1884) – lively rainbow-skink, tussock rainbow-skink
 - Carlia wundalthini (Hoskin, 2014) – Cape Melville rainbow skink
 
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Carlia
 - All pages with titles containing Carlia
 - Carlina (name)
 
References
- ↑ "Carlia Gray, 1845". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
 - ↑ Uetz, P.; Freed, P.; Hošek, J. (eds.). "Eugongylinae". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
 - ↑ Austin JJ, Arnold EN [in French] (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. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.12.011. PMID 16473026.
 - ↑ Carlia at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
 
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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