Egernia

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Egernia
sensu stricto
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Subfamily: Egerniinae
Genus: Egernia
Gray, 1832
Species

See text

Synonyms

Contundo

Wellington
, 1984
Silubosaurus Gray, 1845
Sivascincus Wells & Wellington, 1985
Storrisaurus Wells & Wellington, 1985
Tropidolopisma A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839
and see text

Egernia is a

apomorphies.[1]

Some of the skinks traditionally placed in Egernia appear to be among the most

monotypic and rather distinct genus makes it impossible to decide at present.[1][3]

Systematics, taxonomy and evolution

It is the namesake genus of the Egernia genus-group, which also includes the

basal member of the Egernia genus-group.[3]

The genus Egernia proper, as well as the other lineages, appear to be of

plesiomorphic Lygosominae with a habitus similar to Mabuya.[1]

Species

E. stokesii
) is a large species of the "typical" clade

Mid-sized to large skinks (adult snout-vent length 100–240 mm) with a bulky, usually somewhat flattened body and small eyes. 24–46 rows of midbody scales; dorsal scales smooth, ridged, keeled or spiny (the tail is often notably spiny). The nasal scale has a postnarial groove; the subocular scale row is incomplete. Eyelids similar in colour to the adjacent scales.[1]

Image Scientific Name Common Name Distribution
Egernia cunninghami (Gray
, 1832)		 Cunningham's spiny-tailed skink southeastern Australia.
Egernia cygnitos Doughty, Kealley & Donnellan
, 2011		 Western Pilbara spiny-tailed skink northwestern Australia
Egernia depressa (Günther
, 1875)		 pygmy spiny-tailed skink Western Australia, the Northern Territory and South Australia.
Egernia douglasi Glauert, 1956 Kimberley crevice-skink Western Australia.
Egernia eos
 Doughty, Kealley & Donnellan, 2011		 central pygmy spiny-tailed skink western Australia
Egernia epsisolus
 Doughty, Kealley & Donnellan, 2011		 Eastern Pilbara spiny-tailed skink northwestern Australia
Egernia formosa Fry
, 1914		 Goldfield's crevice-skink northwestern Australia
Egernia hosmeri Kinghorn
, 1955		 Hosmer's spiny-tailed skink Queensland and the Northern Territory.
Egernia kingii
 (Gray, 1838)		 King's skink northwestern Australia
Wellington
, 1984		 eastern crevice-skink, McPhee's egernia Australia.
Egernia napoleonis
 (Gray, 1838)		 southwestern crevice-skink western Australia.
Egernia pilbarensis Storr
, 1978		 Pilbara crevice-skink western Australia.
Egernia richardi (W. Peters
, 1869)		 bright crevice-skink, dark spiny-tailed skink South Australia and Western Australia.
Egernia roomi (Wells and Wellington, 1985) New South Wales.
Egernia rugosa De Vis
, 1888		 Yakka skink[4] Queensland in eastern Australia
Egernia saxatilis Cogger
, 1960		 Black rock skink, black crevice-skink Eastern and Southern Australia from central New South Wales to Grampians National Park in Victoria
Egernia stokesii
 (Gray, 1845)		 gidgee spiny-tailed skink, gidgee skink, Stokes's skink Australia
Egernia striolata
 (W. Peters, 1870)		 tree crevice-skink, "tree skink" Victoria, the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia.

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Egernia.

Fossils

Splitting Egernia in four

genera — as had already been often proposed in former times, as early as the 19th century.[1]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00422.x
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  2. PMID 12675829
    .
  3. ^
    PMID 16473026
    .
  4. ISBN 9780643104570
    .
  5. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1577873
    .

External links
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