Carlia is a genus of lizards, commonly known as four-fingered skinks or rainbow skinks, in the subfamily Eugongylinae of the family Scincidae. 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.

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):

  • Carlia aenigma <small>(Zug, 2004)</small> – enigmatic rainbow skink
  • Carlia ailanpalai <small>(Zug, 2004)</small> – curious skink
  • Carlia amax <small>(Storr, 1974)</small> – bauxite rainbow-skink
  • Carlia aramia <small>(Zug, 2004)</small> – Aramia rainbow skink
  • Carlia babarensis <small>(Kopstein, 1926)</small>
  • Carlia beccarii <small>(W. Peters & Doria, 1878)</small>
  • Carlia bicarinata <small>(Macleay, 1877)</small> – rainbow-skink
  • Carlia bomberai <small>(Zug & Allison, 2006)</small>
  • Carlia caesius <small>(Zug & Allison, 2006)</small>
  • Carlia crypta <small>Singhal, Hoskin, Couper, Potter & Moritz, 2018</small>
  • Carlia decora <small>Hoskin & Couper, 2012</small> – elegant rainbow-skink
  • Carlia diguliensis <small>(Kopstein, 1926)</small> – Digul River rainbow skink
  • Carlia dogare <small>(Covacevich & Ingram, 1975)</small> – sandy rainbow-skink
  • Carlia eothen <small>(Zug, 2004)</small>
  • Carlia fusca <small>(A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839)</small> – brown four-fingered skink, Indonesian brown skink
  • Carlia gracilis <small>(Storr, 1974)</small> – slender rainbow-skink
  • Carlia inconnexa <small>Ingram & Covacevich, 1989</small> – Whitsunday rainbow-skink
  • Carlia insularis <small>Afonso-Silva, Santos, Ogilvie & Moritz, 2017</small> – Kimberley islands rainbow-skink
  • Carlia isostriacantha <small>Afonso-Silva, Santos, Ogilvie & Moritz, 2017</small> – Monsoonal three-keeled rainbow-skink
  • Carlia jarnoldae <small>(Covacevich & Ingram, 1975)</small> – lined rainbow-skink
  • Carlia johnstonei <small>(Storr, 1974)</small> – rough brown rainbow-skink
  • Carlia leucotaenia <small>(Bleeker, 1860)</small>
  • Carlia longipes <small>(Macleay, 1877)</small> – closed-litter rainbow-skink
  • Carlia luctuosa <small>(W. Peters & Doria, 1878)</small>
  • Carlia munda <small>(De Vis, 1885)</small> – shaded-litter rainbow-skink
  • Carlia mysi <small>(Zug, 2004)</small> – Mys's rainbow skink
  • Carlia nigrauris <small>(Zug, 2010)</small>
  • Carlia pectoralis <small>(De Vis, 1885)</small> – open-litter rainbow-skink
  • Carlia peronii <small>(A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839)</small>
  • Carlia pulla <small>(T. Barbour, 1911)</small>
  • Carlia quinquecarinata <small>(Macleay, 1877)</small> – five-keeled rainbow-skink, five-carinated rainbow-skink
  • Carlia rhomboidalis <small>(W. Peters, 1869)</small> – blue-throated rainbow-skink
  • Carlia rostralis <small>(De Vis, 1885)</small> – black-throated rainbow-skink, hooded rainbow skink
  • Carlia rubigo <small>Hoskin & Couper, 2012</small> – orange-flanked rainbow-skink
  • Carlia rubrigularis <small>(Ingram & Covacevich, 1989)</small> – red-throated rainbow-skink, northern red-throated skink
  • Carlia rufilatus <small>(Storr, 1974)</small> – red-sided rainbow-skink
  • Carlia schmeltzii <small>(W. Peters, 1867)</small> – robust rainbow-skink, Schmeltz's skink
  • Carlia sexdentata <small>(Macleay, 1877)</small> – six-toothed rainbow-skink
  • Carlia spinauris <small>(Smith, 1927)</small>
  • Carlia storri <small>(Ingram & Covacevich, 1989)</small> – brown bicarinate rainbow-skink
  • Carlia sukur <small>Zug & Kaiser, 2014</small> – Sukur four-toed skink
  • Carlia tetradactyla <small>(O'Shaughnessy, 1879)</small> – southern rainbow-skink
  • Carlia triacantha <small>(Mitchell, 1953)</small> – desert rainbow-skink
  • Carlia tutela <small>(Zug, 2004)</small>
  • Carlia vivax <small>(De Vis, 1884)</small> – lively rainbow-skink, tussock rainbow-skink
  • Carlia wundalthini <small>(Hoskin, 2014)</small> – Cape Melville rainbow skink

See also

  • Carlina (name)

References

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.&nbsp;271).