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A Selection of
SKINKS (& ALLIES) OF THE WORLD
Note that this page includes lizards in the infraorder Scinciformata  which are close relatives of true skinks (Scincidae)

Peters' Banded Skink

Infraorder
SCINCIFORMATA

COMMON NAME

SCIENTIFIC NAME

FAMILY

Distribution

European Snake-eyed Skink

Ablepharus kitaibelii

Scincidae

Eastern Europe and Southwestern Asia

Ocellated Skink

Chalcides ocellatus

Scincidae

Greece,  Italy, Malta, northern Africa

 UAE, Israel, Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka

Tropical Girdled Lizard

Cordylus tropidosternum

Cordylidae

Eastern Africa, from South-east Kenya and Tanzania to Mozambique, Malawi and west to north Zambia and south DR Congo.

Solomon Islands Skink

Corucia zebrata

Scincidae

Solomon Islands

African Plated Lizard

Broadleysaurus major

Gerrhosauridae

Africa

Bluetailed Shinning (Snakeeyed) Skink

Cryptoblepharus egeriae

Scincidae

CI (extinct in the wild)
CKI (deliberately introduced to save the species)

Vanuatu Snakeeyed Skink

Cryptoblepharus novohebridicus

Scincidae

 Vanuatu

Olive Tree Skink

Dasia olivacea

Scincidae

Southeast Asia

Mangrove Skink or Littoral Whiptail Skink

Emoia atrocostata

Scincidae

CI, Qld, (Cape York, Torres Straight), New Guinea &
Pacific Islands, South East Asia

Pacific Bluetail Skink

Emoia caeruleocauda

Scincidae

Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, the Marianas, Carolines,  Micronesia, Fiji Islands, Vanuatu, and Guam.
 Records from Borneo are doubtful

Teal Emo Skink

Emoia cyanogaster

Scincidae

Papua New Guinea (Bismarcks), Solomons, Vanuatu (Torres and Banks, Espiritu Santo, Malo, Aore, Aoba, Pentecost, Ambrym, Malakula, Epi, Efate, Erromango, Tanna), Admirality Islands, Santa Cruz, Hiu Island

Whitebellied Copperstriped Skink

Emoia cyanura

Scincidae

Borneo, Clipperton Island and other South Pacific islands

Blackbordered Emo Skink

Emoia nigromarginata

Scincidae

Vanuatu

Schneider's Skink 
or Berber Skink

Eumeces schneiderii

Scincidae

Central Asia, Western Asia, and North Africa

Long Tailed Sun Skink

Eutropis longicaudata (or longicaudatus)

Scincidae

 China (including Taiwan and Hong Kong),

Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Peninsular Malaysia.
(Occasional examples turn up in Singapore,

where it believed to be not native)

Bronze Mabuya

Eutropis Macularia

Scincidae

 Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia,
Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Bangladesh,
India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan

Sun Skink

Eutropis multifasciata

Scincidae

 India, Bangladesh to South China, Taiwan,
Thailand, Myanmar , Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam,
Malaysian Peninsula, Singapore, Indonesia,
Papua New Guinea, Philippines
Introduced to USA (Florida) and Taiwan

Blacktailed Barlipped Skink

Glaphyromorphus nigricaudis

Scincidae

NT, Qld (and New Guinea)

Emerald Tree Skink

Lamprolepis smaragdina

Scincidae

Taiwan, Palawan, Luzon, 
Davao and Sulu archipelagoes in the Philippines,
 New Guinea as well as the IndoAustralian archipelago
 and down south to the Solomon and Santa Cruz islands

Grass Skink or Darkflecked Garden Sunskink (Rainbow Skink in Hawaii)

Lampropholis delicata

Scincidae

NSW, ACT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic,
also invasive to LHI, New Zealand and Hawaii

Argentine Black and White Tegu

Salvator merianae

Scincomorpha, Teiidae

Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, & Uruguay

Peters' Banded Skink

Scincopus fasciatus

Scincidae

Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Western Sahara,
Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Libya, Sahara

Lesser Sunda Darkthroated Skink

Sphenomorphus melanopogon

Scincidae

Lesser Sundas (Nusa Tenggara), central Indonesia

Indonesian Bluetongue

Tiliqua gigas

Scincidae

Indonesia (Ambon, Aru Islands, Biak, Halmahera, Kai Islands, Misool, Morotai, Saparua, Seram, Sulawesi, 
Ternate, Waigeo, Western New Guinea, Yapen), 
Papua New Guinea (Bismarck Archipelago [Admiralty Islands,
 New Britain], d'Entrecasteaux Islands (Fergusson, Goodenough, Normanby), 
Eastern New Guinea, Trobriand Islands

Common Bluetongue

Tiliqua scincoides

Scincidae

Australia (NSW, ACT, Qld, SA, Vic. NT, WA)
Indonesia (Maluku Province: Tanimbar, Babar Islands)

Karsten's Zonosaur

Zonosaurus karsteni

Gerrhosauridae

Madagascar

Western Girdled Lizard

Zonosaurus laticaudatus

Gerrhosauridae

Madagascar

Madagascan Giant Plated Lizard

Zonosaurus maximus

Gerrhosauridae

Madagascar

 

DISTRIBUTION KEY
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CI = Christmas Island

CKI = Cocos (Keeling) Island

NSW = New South Wales

NT = Northern Territory

Qld = Queensland

SA = South Australia

Tas = Tasmania

Vic = Victoria

WA = Western Australia

NI = Norfolk Island

LHI = Lord Howe Island

ACT = Australian Capital Territory
(Canberra region only excludes Jervis Bay Territory)


Kingdom:

Animalia

Phylum:

Chordata

Class:

Reptilia (paraphyletic)

Subclass:

Diapsida

(unranked):

Sauria

Infraclass:

Lepidosauromorpha

Order:

Squamata

Suborder:

Scleroglossa

Infraorder:

Scincomorpha olivacea)

Family:

Scincidae

Subfamily:

Lygosominae



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