Egernia
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Taxonavigation
editTaxonavigation: Scincoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Egerniinae
Genus: Egernia
Species (17):
E. cunninghami –
E. cygnitos –
E. depressa –
E. douglasi –
E. eos –
E. epsisolus –
E. formosa –
E. hosmeri –
E. kingii –
E. mcpheei –
E. napoleonis –
E. pilbarensis –
E. richardi –
E. rugosa –
E. saxatilis –
E. stokesii –
E. striolata
Name
edit- Type species: Tiliqua cunninghami Gray, 1832, by monotypy.
Synonyms
edit- Tropidolopisma Duméril & Bibron, 1839: 744 [synonymised by Boulenger (1887: 134)]
- Type species: Tropidolopisma dumerilii Duméril & Bibron, 1839, by monotypy.
- Silubosaurus Gray, 1845: 73 [synonymised by Boulenger (1887: 134)]
- Type species: Silubosaurus stokesii Gray, 1845, by monotypy.
- Contundo Wells & Wellington, 1984: 88 [synonymised by Gardner et al. (2008: 790)]
- Type species: Tiliqua napoleonis Gray, 1838, by original designation.
- Sivascincus Wells & Wellington, 1985: 38 [synonymised by Gardner et al. (2008: 790)]
- Type species: Egernia pilbarensis Storr, 1978, by original designation.
- Storrisaurus Wells & Wellington, 1985: 39 [synonymised by Gardner et al. (2008: 790)]
- Type species: Storrisaurus husbandi Wells & Wellington, 1985, by original designation.
References
editPrimary references
edit- Gray, J.E. 1838. Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. Annals of Natural History série 1, 2: 287-293. BHL
- Duméril, A.M.C. & Bibron, G. 1839. Erpétologie Générale on Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Tome cinquième. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret: Paris. VIII + 854 pp. BHL Reference page.
- Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees of die British Museum/Edward Newman: London. xxvii + 289 pp. BHL Reference page.
- Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. [1983] 1984. A synopsis of the class Reptilia in Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology 1(3–4): 73–129. Reference page.
- Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology, Supplementary Series 1: 1–61. Reference page.
- Gardner, M.G., Hugall, A.F., Donnellan, S.C., Hutchinson, M.N. & Foster, R. 2008. Molecular systematics of social skinks: phylogeny and taxonomy of the Egernia group (Reptilia: Scincidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 154(4): 781–794. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00422.x . Reference page.
Links
edit- Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Bellatorias . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 27 October 2019.