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Carlia

{{Short description|Genus of lizards}}

{{Redirect|four-fingered skink|the four-fingered skink species in Sepsina|Sepsina tetradactyla}}

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| name = Carlia

| image = Carlia rubrigularis.jpg

| image_caption = Carlia rubrigularis

| taxon = Carlia

| authority = Gray, 1845{{ITIS|id=173972 |taxon=Carlia Gray, 1845 |accessdate=20 July 2020}}

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Carlia is a genus of skinks, commonly known as four-fingered skinks or rainbow skinks, in the subfamily Eugongylinae.{{BioRef|reptileDB| taxon=Eugongylinae|access-date=10 October 2019}} Before being placed in this new subfamily, Carlia was recovered in a clade with the genera Niveoscincus, Lampropholis, and others of the Eugongylus group within Lygosominae.{{cite journal |vauthors=Austin JJ, Arnold EN |author-link=species:Jeremy Austin |author2-link=Edwin Nicholas Arnold |year=2006 |title=Using ancient and recent DNA to explore relationships of extinct and endangered Leiolopisma skinks (Reptilia: Scincidae) in the Mascarene islands |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=503–511 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2005.12.011 |pmid=16473026}}

Species

The genus Carlia contains the following species (n.b., a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Carlia):{{NRDB genus |genus=Carlia }}

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See also

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References

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Further reading

  • Dolman G, Hugall AF (2008). "Combined mitochondrial and nuclear data enhance resolution of a rapid radiation of Australian rainbow skinks (Scincidae: Carlia)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49 (3): 782–794.
  • Gray JE (1845). Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxviii + 289 pp. (Carlia, new genus, p. 271).

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Category:Lizard genera

Category:Taxa named by John Edward Gray

Category:Skinks of Australia