| Eremiascincus | |
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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 |
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15 sp., see text | |
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Glaphyromorphus | |
Eremiascincus is a genus of skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to Australia, Indonesia, and East Timor.
Species
The genus contains the following 15 valid species, listed alphabetically by specific name.
- 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
- 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.
- ^ "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).
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