Eulamprus
| Eulamprus | |
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| Eulamprus quoyii (golden water skink) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Sphenomorphinae |
| Genus: | Eulamprus Fitzinger, 1843 |
| Species | |
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Five, see text. | |
Eulamprus is a
Scincidae. The genus is native to Australia
.
Taxonomy
The genus Eulamprus belongs to a
Species
The following five species are recognized as being valid.[3]
- Wellington, 1983 – warm-temperate water-skink, Heatwole's water skink
- Eulamprus kosciuskoi Kinghorn, 1932 – alpine meadow-skink, alpine water skink
- Eulamprus leuraensisWells & Wellington, 1983 – Blue Mountains water skink, Blue Mountain swamp-skink
- Eulamprus quoyii Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 – golden water skink, eastern water-skink, eastern water skink
- , 1915) – southern water skink, cool-temperate water-skink, highland water skink, Dreeite water skink
Species formerly placed in Eulamprus
- Concinnia ampla (Covacevich & McDonald, 1980) – lemon-barred forest-skink
- Concinnia brachyosoma (Lönnberg & Andersson, 1915) – northern barsided skink
- Concinnia frerei (Greer, 1992) – stout barsided skink
- Concinnia martini Wells & Wellington, 1983 – dark barsided skink
- Concinnia sokosoma (Greer, 1992) – stout barsided skink
- Concinnia tenuis (Gray, 1831) bar-sided forest-skink, barred-sided skink
- Concinnia tigrina (De Vis, 1888) – yellow-blotched forest-skink, rainforest water-skink
- Silvascincus murrayi (Boulenger, 1887) – blue-speckled forest-skink
- Longman, 1918) – Border Ranges blue-spectacled skink, forest skink, Tryon's skink
- Tumbunascincus luteilateralis(Covacevich & McDonald, 1980) – orange-speckled forest-skink
References
Further reading
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- Austin, J.J., & (HTML abstract).
- Fitzinger, L. (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae. Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (Eulamprus, new genus, p. 22). (in Latin).
- Shea, G.M., & Michels, J.P. (2008). A replacement name for Sphenomorphus keiensis (Kopstein, 1926) from the southeastern Moluccas, Indonesia (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) with a redescription of the species. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 82 (52): 737–747. PDF Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine.
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