Carlia

Taxobox
name = "Carlia"


image_caption = "Carlia fusca"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia (paraphyletic)
unranked_ordo = Sauria
ordo = Squamata (paraphyletic)
infraordo = Scincomorpha
familia = Scincidae
subfamilia = Lygosominae
genus = "Carlia"
genus_authority =
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = Nearly 30, see text

"Carlia" is a genus of skinks (family Scincidae). It belongs to a clade with the genera "Niveoscincus", "Lampropholis" and possibly others of the "Eugongylus" group (Austin & Arnold 2006).

pecies

*"Carlia amax"
*"Carlia bicarinata"
*"Carlia bomberai"
*"Carlia caesius"
*"Carlia coensis"
*"Carlia dogare"
*"Carlia fusca"
*"Carlia gracilis"
*"Carlia jarnoldae"
*"Carlia johnstonei"
*"Carlia longipes"
*"Carlia munda"
*"Carlia mundivensis"
*"Carlia parrhasius"
*"Carlia pectoralis"
*"Carlia prava"
*"Carlia rhomboidalis"
*"Carlia rimula"
*"Carlia rostralis"
*"Carlia rubrigularis"
*"Carlia rufilatus"
*"Carlia schlegelii"
*"Carlia schmeltzii"
*"Carlia scirtetis"
*"Carlia storri"
*"Carlia tetradactyla"
*"Carlia triacantha"
*"Carlia vivax"

References

* (2006): Using ancient and recent DNA to explore relationships of extinct and endangered "Leiolopisma" skinks (Reptilia: Scincidae) in the Mascarene islands. "Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution" 39(2): 503–511. doi|10.1016/j.ympev.2005.12.011 (HTML abstract)