Eremiascincus

Eremiascincus
Eremiascincus richardsonii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Subfamily:	Sphenomorphinae
Genus:	Eremiascincus Greer, 1979 [1]
Species
15 sp., see text
Synonyms
Glaphyromorphus Wells & Wellington, 1984

Eremiascincus is a genus of skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to Australia, Indonesia, and East Timor. ^[2]

Species

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

1. 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 ". Zootaxa2246: 1-20.
2. "Eremiascincus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

• 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).