Eremiascincus is a genus of skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to Australia, Indonesia, and East Timor.[2]
Species
The genus contains the following 15 valid species, listed alphabetically by specific name.[2]
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Eremiascincus antoniorum (M.A. Smith, 1927)
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Eremiascincus brongersmai (Storr, 1972) – brown-sided bar-lipped skink
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Eremiascincus butlerorum (Aplin, How & Boeadi, 1993)
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Eremiascincus douglasi (Storr, 1967) – orange-sided bar-lipped skink
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Eremiascincus emigrans (Lidth de Jeude, 1895)
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Eremiascincus fasciolatus (Günther, 1867) – narrow-banded sand-swimmer, thick-tailed skink
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Eremiascincus intermedius (Sternfeld, 1919) – northern narrow–banded skink
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Eremiascincus isolepis (Boulenger, 1887) – northern bar-lipped skink, short-legged slender skink
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Eremiascincus musivus Mecke, Doughty & Donnellan, 2009 – mosaic desert skink
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Eremiascincus pallidus (Günther, 1875) – western sand-swimming skink, western narrow-banded skink
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Eremiascincus pardalis (Macleay, 1877) – lowlands bar-lipped skink
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Eremiascincus phantasmus Mecke, Doughty & Donnellan, 2013 – ghost skink
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Eremiascincus richardsonii (Gray, 1845) – broad-banded sand-swimmer, Richardson's skink
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Eremiascincus rubiginosus Mecke & Doughty, 2018 – rusty skink
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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
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^ 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.
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^ a b "Eremiascincus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
