Skinks
Lizards who belong to the Scincidae family are known as skinks. Most of them are dirunial, meaning they are active at day. They have four legs and a slender body. They occur throughout the world. There are around 1500 skinks species in the world, some have gone extinct.
Types of Skinks
Snake-eyed Skinks (Ablepharus) |
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| Twin-striped skink | Budak’s snake-eyed skink | Chernov’s skink |
| Darvaz Range skink | Desert lidless skink | Minor snake-eyed skink |
| European snake-eyed skink | Lindberg’s snake-eyed skink | Asian snake-eyed skink |
| Rüppell’s snake-eyed skink | ||
Acontias |
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| Acontias albigularis | Acontias aurantiacus | Acontias bicolor |
| Shorthead lance skink | Acontias cregoi | Fitzsimons’s legless skink |
| Acontias gariepensis | Acontias gracilicauda | Gray’s dwarf legless skink |
| Acontias jappi | Acontias kgalagadi | Acontias lineatus |
| Acontias litoralis | Cape legless skink | Acontias namaquensis |
| Acontias occidentalis | Acontias orientalis | Maputaland legless skink |
| Percival’s lance skink | Acontias plumbeus | Acontias richardi |
| Acontias rieppeli | Acontias schmitzi | Acontias tristis |
| Acontias wakkerstroomensis | ||
Acritoscincus |
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| Bold-striped cool-skink/ Eastern three-lined skink | Red-throated cool-skink/Red-throated skink | South-western cool-skink/Western three-lined skink |
Alinea |
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| San Andrés skink | Barbados skink | Saint Lucia skink |
| Providencia skink | ||
Amphiglossus |
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| Amphiglossus astrolabi | Amphiglossus reticulatus | |
Anepischetosia |
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| Highlands forest-skink | ||
Anomalopus |
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| Short-necked worm-skink | Speckled worm-skink | Two-clawed worm-skink |
| Five-clawed worm-skink | Cape York worm-skink | Punctate worm-skink |
| Three-clawed worm-skink | ||
Aspronema |
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| Aspronema cochabambae | Paraguay mabuya | |
Asymblepharus |
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| Asymblepharus alaicus | Asymblepharus eremchenkoi | Asymblepharus himalayanus |
| Asymblepharus ladacensis | Asymblepharus mahabharatus | Asymblepharus nepalensis |
| Asymblepharus sikkimensis | Asymblepharus tragbulense | |
Ateuchosaurus |
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| Ateuchosaurus chinensis | Ateuchosaurus pellopleurus | |
Austroablepharus |
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| Austroablepharus barrylyoni | Kinghorn’s snake-eyed skink | Austroablepharus naranjicaudus |
Barkudia |
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| Chilka limbless skink | Vizag limbless skink | |
Bellatorias |
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| Major’s skink | Land mullet | Arnhem Land Gorges skink |
Brachymeles |
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| Brachymeles apus | Brachymeles bicolandia | Brachymeles bicolor |
| Brachymeles boholensis | Brachymeles bonitae | Brachymeles boulengeri |
| Brachymeles brevidactylus | Brachymeles cebuensis | Brachymeles cobos |
| Brachymeles dalawangdaliri | Brachymeles elerae | Brachymeles gracilis |
| Brachymeles hilong | Brachymeles ilocandia | Brachymeles isangdaliri |
| Brachymeles kadwa | Brachymeles libayani | Brachymeles ligtas |
| Brachymeles lukbani | Brachymeles makusog | Brachymeles mapalanggaon |
| Brachymeles mindorensis | Brachymeles minimus | Brachymeles miriamae |
| Brachymeles muntingkamay | Brachymeles orientalis | Brachymeles paeforum |
| Brachymeles pathfinderi | Brachymeles samad | Brachymeles samarensis |
| Brachymeles schadenbergi | Brachymeles suluensis | Brachymeles talinis |
| Brachymeles taylori | Brachymeles tiboliorum | Brachymeles tridactylus |
| Brachymeles tungaoi | Brachymeles vermis | Brachymeles vindumi |
| Brachymeles vulcani | Brachymeles wrighti | |
Brachyseps |
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| Brachyseps anosyensis | Boulenger’s tree skink | O’Shaughnessy’s Madagascar skink |
| Black-striped skink | Brachyseps mandady | Brachyseps punctatus |
| Brachyseps spilostichus | Splendid skink | |
Brasiliscincus |
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| Brasiliscincus agilis | Brasiliscincus caissara | Brazilian mabuya |
Caesoris |
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| Blue-mouthed skink | ||
Caledoniscincus |
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| Caledoniscincus aquilonius | Caledoniscincus atropunctatus | Caledoniscincus auratus |
| Caledoniscincus austrocaledonicus | Caledoniscincus chazeaui | Caledoniscincus constellatus |
| Caledoniscincus cryptos | Caledoniscincus festivus | Caledoniscincus haplorhinus |
| Caledoniscincus notialis | Caledoniscincus orestes | Caledoniscincus pelletieri |
| Caledoniscincus renevieri | Caledoniscincus terma | |
Calyptotis |
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| Cone-eared skink | Red-tailed skink | Scute-snouted Calyptotis |
| Broad-templed skink | Thornton Peak skink | |
Capitellum |
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| Marie-Galante skink | Lesser Martinique skink | Lesser Saint Croix skink |
Snow/Cool Skinks (Carinascincus) |
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| Southern forest cool-skink | Alpine cool-skink/Northern snow skink | Metallic cool-skink |
| Boulder cool-skink/Southern snow skink | Spotted skink/Ocellated cool-skink | Tasmanian mountain skink/Heath cool-skink |
| Pedra Branca cool skink | Red-throated skink | Tasmanian tree skink/Agile cool-skink |
Four-fingered Skinks (Carlia) |
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| Carlia aenigma | Carlia ailanpalai | Bauxite rainbow-skink |
| Carlia aramia | Carlia babarensis | Carlia beccarii |
| Rainbow-skink | Carlia bomberai | Carlia caesius |
| Carlia crypta | Elegant rainbow-skink | Carlia diguliensis |
| Sandy rainbow-skink | Carlia eothen | Indonesian brown skink |
| Slender rainbow-skink | Whitsunday rainbow-skink | Carlia insularis |
| Carlia isostriacantha | Lined rainbow-skink | Rough brown rainbow-skink |
| Carlia leucotaenia | Closed-litter rainbow-skink | Carlia luctuosa |
| Shaded-litter rainbow-skink | Carlia mysi | Carlia nigrauris |
| Open-litter rainbow-skink | Carlia peronii | Carlia pulla |
| Carlia quinquecarinata | Blue-throated rainbow-skink | Black-throated rainbow-skink/ Hooded rainbow skink |
| Orange-flanked rainbow-skink | Red-throated rainbow-skink/ Northern red-throated skink | Red-sided rainbow-skink |
| Robust rainbow-skink/ Schmeltz’s skink | Carlia sexdentata | Carlia spinauris |
| Brown bicarinate rainbow-skink | Sukur four-toed skink | Southern rainbow-skink |
| Desert rainbow-skink | Carlia tutela | Tussock rainbow-skink |
| Cape Melville rainbow skink | ||
Celatiscincus |
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| Southern pale-hipped skink | Northern Pale-hipped skink | |
Chalcides |
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| Armitage’s cylindrical skink | Bedriaga’s skink | Chalcides bottegi |
| Chalcides boulengeri | Italian three-toed skink | Chalcides coeruleopunctatus |
| Riffian skink | Chalcides delislei | Ebner’s skink |
| Günther’s cylindrical skink | Lanza’s skink | Leviton’s cylindrical skink |
| Manuel’s skink | Two-fingered skink | Algerian three-toed skink |
| Small three-toed skink | Mionecton skink | Chalcides montanus |
| Ocellated skink | Doumergue’s skink | Five-fingered skink |
| Many-scaled cylindrical skink | Moroccan three-toed skink | Mocquard’s cylindrical skink |
| Ragazzi’s cylindrical skink | Chalcides sepsoides | Gran Canaria skink |
| East Canary skink | Chalcides sphenopsiformis | Western three-toed skink |
| Thierry’s cylindrical skink | West Canary skink | |
Chalcidoseps |
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| Thwaites’s skink | ||
Chioninia |
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| Cape Verde giant skink | Delalande’s skink | Fogo skink |
| São Nicolau skink | Chioninia spinalis | Stanger’s skink |
| Vaillant’s mabuya | ||
Coeranoscincus |
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| Limbless snake-tooth skink | Three-toed snake-tooth skink | |
Coggeria |
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| Satinay sand skink | ||
Concinnia |
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| Lemon-barred forest-skink | Northern barsided skink | Stout barsided skink |
| Dark barsided skink | Prickly forest skink | Stout barsided skink |
| Bar-sided forest-skink/Barred-sided skink | Yellow-blotched forest-skink/Rainforest water-skink | |
Copeoglossum |
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| Arajara mabuya | Greater Windward skink | Margarita skink |
| Black-spotted skink | Redonda skink | |
Keeled Water Skinks (Cophoscincopus) |
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| Cophoscincopus durus | Cophoscincopus greeri | Cophoscincopus senegalensis |
| Cophoscincopus simulans | ||
Corucia |
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| Solomon Islands skink | ||
Cryptoblepharus |
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| Cryptoblepharus adamsi | Cryptoblepharus africanus | Cryptoblepharus ahli |
| Cryptoblepharus aldabrae | Cryptoblepharus ater | Inland snake-eyed skink |
| Cryptoblepharus balinensis | Cryptoblepharus bitaeniatus | Cryptoblepharus boutonii |
| Cryptoblepharus buchananii | Cryptoblepharus burdeni | Cryptoblepharus caudatus |
| Cryptoblepharus cognatus | Cryptoblepharus cursor | Swanson’s snake-eyed skink |
| Dappled snake-eyed skink | Cryptoblepharus egeriae | Cryptoblepharus eximius |
| Noble snake-eyed skink | Black-boulder shining-skink | Cryptoblepharus furvus |
| Cryptoblepharus gloriosus | Arafura snake-eyed skink | Juno’s snake-eyed skink |
| Cryptoblepharus keiensis | Cryptoblepharus leschenault | Coastal snake-eyed skink/ Supralittoral shining-skink |
| Blotched shining-skink | Mertens’s snake-eyed skink | Metallic snake-eyed skink |
| Cryptoblepharus nigropunctatus | Cryptoblepharus novaeguineae | Cryptoblepharus novocaledonicus |
| Cryptoblepharus novohebridicus | pale snake-eyed skink | Cryptoblepharus pannosus |
| Péron’s snake-eyed skink/ Callose-palmed shining-skink | Mottled snake-eyed skink | Cryptoblepharus pulcher |
| Cryptoblepharus quinquetaeniatus | Cryptoblepharus renschi | Cryptoblepharus richardsi |
| Tawny snake-eyed skink
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Cryptoblepharus rutilus | Cryptoblepharus schlegelianus |
| Pygmy snake-eyed skink | Russet snake-eyed skink | Cream-striped shining-skink/Wall skink |
| Cryptoblepharus voeltzkowi | Spangled snake-eyed skink | Cryptoblepharus xenikos |
| Cryptoblepharus yulensis | Agile snake-eyed skink | Blue-tailed skink |
Ctenotus |
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| Ctenotus agrestis | Ctenotus arcanus | western limestone ctenotus |
| Ctenotus alacer | Ctenotus ariadnae | Ctenotus borealis |
| Ctenotus alleni | Ctenotus arnhemensis | Ctenotus brevipes |
| Ctenotus allotropis | Ctenotus astarte | Ctenotus brooksi |
| Ctenotus angusticeps | Ctenotus astictus | Ctenotus burbidgei |
| Ctenotus aphrodite | Ctenotus atlas | Ctenotus calurus |
| Ctenotus capricorni | Ctenotus catenifer | Ctenotus coggeri |
| Ctenotus colletti | Ctenotus decaneurus | Ctenotus delli |
| Ctenotus duricola | Ctenotus dux | Ctenotus ehmanni |
| Ctenotus essingtonii | Ctenotus euclae | Ctenotus eurydice |
| Ctenotus eutaenius | Ctenotus gagudju | Ctenotus gemmula |
| Ctenotus grandis | Ctenotus greeri | Ctenotus halysis |
| Ctenotus hanloni | Ctenotus hebetior | Ctenotus hilli |
| Ctenotus iapetus | Ctenotus impar | Ctenotus ingrami |
| Ctenotus inornatus | Ctenotus joanae | Ctenotus kurnbudj |
| Ctenotus labillardieri | Lancelin Island skink | Ctenotus lateralis |
| Ctenotus leae | Ctenotus leonhardii | Ctenotus maryani |
| Ctenotus mastigura | Ctenotus mesotes | Ctenotus militaris |
| Ctenotus mimetes | Ctenotus monticola | Ctenotus nasutus |
| Ctenotus nigrilineatus | Ctenotus nullum | Ctenotus olympicus |
| coastal plains skink | Ctenotus orientalis | Ctenotus pallasotus |
| Ctenotus pallescens | Leopard ctenotus | Ctenotus piankai |
| Ctenotus pulchellus | Ctenotus quattuordecimlineatus | Ctenotus quinkan |
| Ctenotus quirinus | Ctenotus rawlinsoni | Ctenotus regius |
| Ctenotus rhabdotus | Ctenotus rimacolus | Ctenotus robustus |
| Ctenotus rosarium | Ctenotus rubicundus | Ctenotus rufescens |
| Ctenotus rutilans | Ctenotus schevilli | Ctenotus schomburgkii |
| Ctenotus septenarius | Ctenotus serotinus | Ctenotus serventyi |
| Ctenotus spaldingi | Ctenotus storri | Ctenotus strauchii |
| Ctenotus striaticeps | Ctenotus stuarti | Ctenotus superciliaris |
| Ctenotus taeniatus | Copper-tailed skink | Ctenotus tanamiensis |
| Ctenotus tantillus | Ctenotus terrareginae | Ctenotus uber |
| Ctenotus vagus | Ctenotus vertebralis | Ctenotus xenopleura |
| Ctenotus youngsoni | Hamelin ctenotus | Ctenotus zebrilla |
Cyclodomorphus |
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| Cyclodomorphus branchialis | She-oak skink | Cyclodomorphus celatus |
| Pink-tongued skink | Cyclodomorphus maximus | Cyclodomorphus melanops |
| Cyclodomorphus michaeli | Alpine She-oak skink | Cyclodomorphus venustus |
| Tree skinks (Dasia) | ||
| Griffin’s dasia | Big tree skink/Grey dasia/Grey tree skink | Ceylonese dasia |
| Barred tree skink | Nicobar dasia/ Nicobar tree skink | Olive dasia/Olive tree skink |
| Peters’ dasia | Boulenger’s dasia/Boulenger’s tree skink | Borneo skink/Striped tree skink |
| Shelford’s skink | ||
Egernia |
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| Cunningham’s skink | Egernia cygnitos | pygmy spiny-tailed skink |
| Kimberley crevice-skink | Central pygmy spiny-tailed skink | Eastern Pilbara spiny-tailed skink |
| Goldfield’s crevice-skink | Egernia gillespieae | Hosmer’s spiny-tailed skink |
| King’s skink | Eastern crevice-skink/McPhee’s Egernia | South-western crevice-skink |
| Pilbara crevice-skink | Bright crevice-skink/Dark spiny-tailed skink | Yakka skink |
| Black crevice-skink/Black rock skink | Gidgee spiny-tailed skink/Gidgee skink/Stokes’ skink | Tree crevice-skink |
Emoia |
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| Dark-sided emoia/Dark-sided skink/Dateline emoia | Emoia aenea | Emoia aneityumensis |
| Arno skink | Littoral skink | Emoia aurulenta |
| Emoia battersbyi | Emoia baudini | Emoia beryllion |
| Emoia bismarckensis | Boettger’s skink | Emoia bogerti |
| Emoia brongersmai | Pacific bluetail skink/Marianas blue-tailed skink | Emoia callisticta |
| Emoia campbelli | Emoia coggeri | Emoia concolor |
| Blue-bellied skink | Azure-tailed emoia/Copper-tailed emoia | Emoia cyclops |
| Emoia digul | Emoia erronan | Emoia flavigularis |
| Emoia guttata | Ccopper striped blue-tailed skink | Emoia irianensis |
| Emoia isolata | Jakati emoia/Kopstein’s skink | Emoia jamur |
| Emoia kitcheneri | Emoia klossi | Emoia kordoana |
| Kuekenthal’s emo skink | Emoia laobaoense | Lawes’ skink |
| Emoia longicauda | Emoia loveridgei | Emoia loyaltiensis |
| Emoia maculata | Emoia maxima | Mivart’s skink |
| Emoia mokolahi | Emoia mokosariniveikau | Emoia montana |
| Emoia nativitatis | Black skink | Emoia nigromarginata |
| Emoia obscura | Emoia oribata | Emoia oriva |
| Emoia pallidiceps | Emoia paniai | Emoia parkeri |
| Emoia physicae | Emoia physicina | Kiester’s emo skink/Ponape Forest skink |
| Emoia popei | Emoia pseudocyanura | Emoia pseudopallidiceps |
| Emoia reimschisseli | Emoia rennellensis | Emoia ruficauda |
| Emoia rufilabialis | Samoan skink | Emoia sanfordi |
| Emoia schmidti | Emoia similis | Slevin’s skink/Marianas emoia |
| Emoia sorex | Emoia submetallica | Emoia taumakoensis |
| Emoia tetrataenia | Emoia tongana | Emoia tropidolepis |
| Emoia trossula | Emoia tuitarere | Emoia veracunda |
Epibator |
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| Greer’s tree skink | Epibator insularis | Green-bellied tree skink |
Eremiascincus |
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| Eremiascincus antoniorum | Brown-sided bar-lipped skink | Eremiascincus butlerorum |
| Orange-sided bar-lipped skink | Eremiascincus emigrans | Narrow-banded sand-swimmer |
| Eremiascincus intermedius | Northern bar-lipped skink | Mosaic desert skink |
| Eremiascincus pallidus | Lowlands bar-lipped skink | Eremiascincus phantasmus |
| Broad-banded sand-swimmer | Eremiascincus rubiginosus | Eremiascincus timorensis |
Eroticoscincus |
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| Eroticoscincus graciloides | ||
Eugongylus |
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| White-banded mastiff skink/ White-banded giant skink/White-striped cape skink | Odd-chinned mastiff skink/Odd-chinned giant skink | Bar-lipped sheen-skink |
| Sula skink | Eugongylus unilineatus | |
Water Skinks (Eulamprus) |
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| Warm-temperate water-skink | Alpine meadow-skink/Alpine water skink | Blue Mountains water skink/Blue Mountain swamp-skink |
| Golden water skink/Eastern water-skink/Eastern water skink | Southern water skink/Cool-temperate water-skink/Highland water skink | |
Eumeces |
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| Algerian skink | Blyth’s skink | Eumeces cholistanensis |
| Eumeces indothalensis | Eumeces persicus | Eumeces schneiderii |
Eumecia |
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| Eumecia anchietae | Eumecia johnstoni | |
Eurylepis |
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| Poona skink | Alpine Punjab skink | |
Eutropis |
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| Eutropis allapallensis | Eutropis andamanensis | Ashwamedh writhing skink/ Ashwamedha supple skink |
| Eutropis austini | Beddome’s mabuya | Eutropis bibronii |
| Luzon montane mabuya | Keeled Indian mabuya/Many-keeled grass skink | Sapa mabuya |
| Inger’s mabuya | Cuming’s mabuya/Cuming’s eared skink | Eutropis darevskii |
| Striped grass mabuya/Striped grass skink | Six-striped mabuya | Taylor’s striped mabuya |
| Eutropis gansi | Eutropis greeri | Brown’s mabuya |
| Blanford’s mabuya | Giant copper skink/Longtail mabuya | Eutropis macrophthalma |
| Bronze mabuya/Bronze grass skink | Sri Lanka bronze mabuya | Many-keeled mabuya/Two-striped mabuya |
| East Indian brown mabuya/ Many-lined sun skink/Many-striped skink/Common sun skink/ Golden skink | Sharma’s mabuya | Eutropis quadratilobus |
| Beautiful mabuya | Rough mabuya/Brown mabuya | Nicobar Island skink/Sulawesi bronze bush skink |
| Tammanna skink | Three-banded mabuya | Tytler’s mabuya |
Exila |
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| Black mabuya | ||
Feylinia |
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| Feylinia boulengeri | Feylinia currori | Feylinia elegans |
| Feylinia grandisquamis | Feylinia macrolepis | Feylinia polylepis |
Flexiseps |
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| Flexiseps alluaudi | Andranovaho skink | Yellow skink |
| Flexiseps crenni | Rock skink | Flexiseps elongatus |
| Johanna’s skink | Flexiseps mandokava | Spotted skink |
| Flexiseps meva | Grey skink | Flexiseps stylus |
| Flexiseps tanysoma | Tsaratanana skink | Flexiseps valhallae |
Fojia |
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| Fojia skink | ||
Geomyersia |
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| Cogger’s island skink | Greer’s island skink | |
Geoscincus |
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| Meier’s skink | ||
Glaphyromorphus |
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| Glaphyromorphus clandestinus | Glaphyromorphus cracens | Glaphyromorphus crassicaudus |
| Glaphyromorphus darwiniensis | Glaphyromorphus fuscicaudis | Glaphyromorphus mjobergi |
| Glaphyromorphus nigricaudis | Glaphyromorphus nyanchupinta | Glaphyromorphus othelarrni |
| Glaphyromorphus pumilus | Glaphyromorphus punctulatus | |
Gongylomorphus |
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| Bojer’s skink | ||
Graciliscincus |
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| Sadlier’s skink/Gracile burrowing skink | ||
Grandidierina |
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| Grandidierina fierinensis | Grandidierina lineata | Grandidierina petiti |
| Grandidierina rubrocaudata | ||
Haackgreerius |
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| Haackgreerius miopus | ||
Hakaria |
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| Hakaria simonyi | ||
Harrisoniascincus |
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| Rainforest cool-skink/Beech skink | ||
Earless Skinks (Hemiergis) |
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| Three-toed earless skink | South-western mulch-skink | south-western earless skink |
| Triodia earless skink | Four-toed earless skink/Peron’s earless skink/Lowlands earless skink | Two-toed earless skink |
| Eastern three-toed earless skink | ||
Heremites |
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| levant skink | Frontal Asian mabuya/Southern grass skink | Bridled mabuya/Bridled skink |
Insulasaurus |
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| Insulasaurus arborens | Insulasaurus traanorum | Insulasaurus victoria |
| Insulasaurus wrighti | ||
Isopachys |
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| Thai snake skink/Heyer’s Isopachys | Isopachys borealis | Gyldenstolpe’s worm skink |
| Isopachys roulei | ||
Janetaescincus |
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| Janetaescincus braueri | Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi | |
Jarujinia |
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| Jarujinia bipedalis | ||
Kaestlea |
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| Kaestlea beddomii | Kaestlea bilineata | Kaestlea laterimaculata |
| Kaestlea palnica | Travancore ground skink | |
Kanakysaurus |
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| Kanakysaurus viviparus | Kanakysaurus zebratus | |
Kuniesaurus |
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| Kuniesaurus albiauris | ||
Lacertaspis |
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| Lacertaspis chriswildi | Lacertaspis gemmiventris | Lacertaspis lepesmei |
| Lacertaspis reichenowi | Lacertaspis rohdei | |
Lacertoides |
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| New Caledonian leopard skink | ||
Lamprolepis |
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| Lamprolepis leucosticta | Lamprolepis nieuwenhuisii | Emerald tree skink/Green tree skink |
Indo-Australian Ground Skinks/Sunskinks (Lampropholis) |
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| Diamond-shielded sunskink | Friendly sunskink | Lampropholis bellendenkerensis |
| Montane sunskink | Rainforest sunskink | Bunya sunskink/Greater litter skink |
| Plain-backed sunskink | Delicate skink/Rainbow skink/ Garden skink | Lampropholis elliotensis |
| Lampropholis elongata | Common garden skink/Pale-flecked garden sunskink/Guichenot’s grass skink | Saxicoline sunskink |
| Grey-bellied sunskink | Lampropholis similis | |
Lankascincus |
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| Deignan’s Lanka skink | Deraniyagala’s Lanka skink | Lankascincus dorsicatenatus |
| Peter’s Lanka Skink | Gans’ Lankaskink | Greer’s Lanka skink |
| Munindradasa’s Lanka skink | Sripada forest skink | Smooth Lanka skink/Ceylon tree skink |
| Taylor’s Lanka skink | ||
Larutia |
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| Larutia larutensis | Larutia miodactyla | Larutia nubisilvicola |
| Larutia penangensis | Larutia puehensis | Larutia seribuatensis |
| Larutia sumatrensis | Larutia trifasciata | |
Leiolopisma |
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| Lauan ground skink/Ono-i-Lau ground skink | Leiolopisma ceciliae | Leiolopisma fasciolare |
| Leiolopisma mauritiana | Round Island skink/Telfair’s skink | |
Lepidothyris |
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| Fire skink | Lepidothyris hinkeli | Lepidothyris striatus |
Leptoseps |
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| Osella’s skink | Leptoseps poilani | |
Leptosiaphos |
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| Leptosiaphos aloysiisabaudiae | Leptosiaphos amieti | Leptosiaphos blochmanni |
| Leptosiaphos dewittei | Leptosiaphos dungeri | Leptosiaphos fuhni |
| Leptosiaphos graueri | Leptosiaphos hackarsi | Leptosiaphos hylophilus |
| Leptosiaphos ianthinoxantha | Leptosiaphos kilimensis | Leptosiaphos koutoui |
| Leptosiaphos luberoensis | Leptosiaphos meleagris | Leptosiaphos pauliani |
| Leptosiaphos rhodurus | Leptosiaphos rhomboidalis | Leptosiaphos vigintiserierum |
Sliders (Lerista) |
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| Lerista aericeps | Lerista alia | Lerista allanae |
| Lerista allochira | Lerista ameles | Lerista amicorum |
| Lerista apoda | Lerista arenicola | Lerista axillaris |
| Lerista baynesi | Lerista bipes | Lerista borealis |
| Lerista bougainvillii | Lerista bunglebungle | Lerista carpentariae |
| Lerista chalybura | Lerista chordae | Lerista christinae |
| Lerista cinerea | Lerista clara | Lerista colliveri |
| Lerista connivens | Lerista desertorum | Lerista distinguenda |
| Lerista dorsalis | Lerista edwardsae | Lerista elegans |
| Lerista elongata | Lerista emmotti | Lerista eupoda |
| Lerista flammicauda | Lerista fragilis | Lerista frosti |
| Lerista gascoynensis | Lerista gerrardii | Lerista greeri |
| Lerista griffini | Lerista haroldi | Lerista hobsoni |
| Lerista humphriesi | Lerista ingrami | Lerista ips |
| Lerista jacksoni | Lerista kalumburu | Lerista karlschmidti |
| Lerista kendricki | Lerista kennedyensis | Lerista kingi |
| Southern sandslider | Lerista lineata | Lerista lineopunctulata |
| Lerista macropisthopus | Lerista maculosa | Lerista micra |
| Lerista microtis | Lerista miopus | Lerista muelleri |
| Lerista neander | Lerista nevinae | Lerista nichollsi |
| Lerista occulta | Lerista onsloviana | Lerista orientalis |
| Lerista parameles | Lerista petersoni | Lerista picturata |
| Lerista planiventralis | Lerista praefrontalis | Lerista praepedita |
| Lerista punctatovittata | Lerista puncticauda | Lerista quadrivincula |
| Lerista robusta | Lerista rochfordensis | Lerista rolfei |
| Lerista separanda | Lerista simillima | Lerista speciosa |
| Lerista stictopleura | Lerista storri | Lerista stylis |
| Lerista taeniata | Lerista talpina | Lerista terdigitata |
| Lerista timida | Lerista tridactyla | Lerista uniduo |
| Lerista vanderduysi | Lerista varia | Lerista verhmens |
| Lerista vermicularis | Lerista viduata | Lerista vittata |
| Lerista walkeri | Lerista wilkinsi | Lerista xanthura |
| Lerista yuna | Lerista zietzi | Lerista zonulata |
Liburnascincus |
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| Liburnascincus artemis | Coen rainbow-skink | Outcrop rainbow-skink |
| Black Mountain rainbow-skink | ||
Liopholis |
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| Guthega skink/Snowy Mountains skink | Unadorned desert-skink | Great Desert skink |
| Centralian Ranges rock-skink/Flinder’s Ranges rock-skink | Eastern Ranges rock-skink | Mountain egernia |
| Southern sand-skink | Liopholis personata | South-western rock-skink |
| Centralian Floodplains desert-skink/Slater’s egernia | Nocturnal desert-skink/Night skink/Striated egernia | White’s rock-skink |
Lioscincus |
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| Lioscincus steindachneri | Lioscincus vivae | |
Lipinia |
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| Lipinia albodorsalis | Lipinia auriculata | Cheesman’s lipinia |
| Lipinia inconspicua | Lipinia inexpectata | Lipinia infralineolata |
| Lipinia leptosoma | Lipinia longiceps | big-eared lipinia |
| Lipinia miangensis | Lipinia nitens | Lipinia noctua |
| Lipinia nototaenia | Lipinia occidentalis | Lipinia pulchella |
| Lipinia pulchra | four-striped lipinia | Lipinia rabori |
| Lipinia relicta | Lipinia rouxi | Lipinia sekayuensis |
| Lipinia semperi | Lipinia septentrionalis | Lipinia subvittata |
| Lipinia surda | Lipinia venemai | Lipinia vittigera |
| Lipinia vulcania | Lipinia zamboangensis | |
Lissolepis |
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| eastern mourning skink | Western mourning skink/western glossy swamp skink | |
Lobulia |
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| Lobulia alpina | Lobulia brongersmai | Lobulia elegans |
| Lobulia glacialis | Lobulia stellaris | Lobulia subalpina |
Lubuya |
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| Ivens’ skink/Meadow skink | ||
Lygisaurus |
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| Lygisaurus abscondita | Lygisaurus aeratus | Lygisaurus curtus |
| Lygisaurus foliorum | Lygisaurus laevis | Lygisaurus macfarlani |
| Lygisaurus malleolus | Lygisaurus novaeguineae | Lygisaurus parrhasius |
| Lygisaurus rimula | Lygisaurus rococo | Lygisaurus sesbrauna |
| Lygisaurus tanneri | Lygisaurus zuma | |
Lygosoma |
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| Lygosoma albopunctatum | Lygosoma angeli | Lygosoma anguinum |
| Lygosoma bampfyldei | Lygosoma boehmei | Lygosoma bowringii |
| Lygosoma corpulentum | Lygosoma frontoparietale | Lygosoma goaensis |
| Lygosoma guentheri | Lygosoma haroldyoungi | Lygosoma herberti |
| Lygosoma isodactylum | Lygosoma kinabatanganensis | Lygosoma koratense |
| Lygosoma lanceolatum | Lygosoma lineata | Lygosoma lineolatum |
| Lygosoma opisthorhodum | Lygosoma peninsulare | Lygosoma popae |
| Lygosoma pruthi | Lygosoma punctata | Lygosoma quadrupes |
| Lygosoma samajaya | Lygosoma schneideri | Lygosoma siamensis |
| Lygosoma singha | Lygosoma tabonorum | Lygosoma veunsaiensis |
| Lygosoma vosmaeri | ||
Mabuya |
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| Cochons skink | Désirade skink | Dominica skink |
| Grande-Terre skink | Guadeloupe skink . | Hispaniolan two-lined skink |
| Greater Martinique skink | Montserrat skink | Petite Terre skink |
Madascincus |
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| Ankodabe skink | Madascincus arenicola | Redtail skink |
| Rusty skink | Common Madagascar skink | Madascincus miafina |
| Madascincus minutus | Morondava skink | Madascincus nanus |
| Madagascar coastal skink | Madascincus pyrurus | Stumpff’s skink |
Manciola |
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| South American small-handed skink/Dunn’s mabuya | ||
Maracaiba |
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| Maracaiba meridensis | Maracaiba zuliae | |
Marisora |
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| Marisora alliacea | Marisora aurulae | Marisora brachypoda |
| Marisora falconensis | Corn Island Skink | Roatán Skink |
| Central American mabuya | ||
Marmorosphax |
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| Marmorosphax boulinda | Marmorosphax kaala | Montane marble-throated skink |
| Marmorosphax taom | Marble-throated skink | |
Melanoseps |
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| Longtail limbless skink | Uluguru limbless skink | Melanoceps longicauda |
| Melanoseps loveridgei | Melanoseps occidentalis | Melanoceps pygmaeus |
| Melanoseps rondoensis | Melanoceps uzungwensis | |
Menetia |
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| Alana’s menetia | Jabiluka dwarf skink | Common dwarf skink |
| Main’s menetia | Western dwarf skink | |
Mesoscincus |
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| Tepalcatepec skink | Managua skink | Schwartze’s skink |
Mochlus |
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| Mochlus brevicaudis | Mochlus grandisonianus | Mochlus guineensis |
| Mochlus laeviceps | Mochlus mabuiiformis | Mochlus mafianus |
| Mocquard’s writhing skink[ | Mochlus paedocarinatus | Mochlus pembanus |
| Mochlus productus | Mochlus simonettai | Mochlus somalicus |
| Sundevall’s writhing skink | Mochlus tanae | Mochlus vinciguerrae |
Firetail Skinks (Morethia) |
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| Saltbush Morethia skink | Boulenger’s skink | Woodland Morethia skink |
| West coast Morethia skink | Shrubland Morethia skink | Lined firetail skink |
| Top end firetail skink | North-eastern firetail skink | |
Nangura |
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| Nangur spiny skink | ||
Nannoscincus |
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| Nannoscincus exos | Nannoscincus fuscus | Nannoscincus garrulus |
| Nannoscincus gracilis | Nannoscincus greeri | Nannoscincus hanchisteus |
| Nannoscincus humectus | Nannoscincus koniambo | Nannoscincus manautei |
| Nannoscincus mariei | Nannoscincus rankini | Nannoscincus slevini |
Nessia |
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| Smith’s Snake Skink | Burton’s nessia | Deraniyagala’s snake skink |
| Two-toed nessia | Gans’ three-toed snake skink | Hickanala nessia |
| Layard’s snake skink | One-toed nessia | Sarasins’ snake skink |
Notomabuya |
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| Notomabuya frenata | ||
Notoscincus |
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| Soil-crevice skinks | ||
Oligosoma |
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| Fiordland skink | copper skink | Alan’s skink |
| Awakopaka skink | Burgan skink | Green skink |
| Marlborough spotted skink | Oligosoma fallai | Grand skink |
| Hardy’s skink | chevron skink | Pukuma skink |
| Cryptic skink | speckled skink | barrier skink |
| northern spotted skink | slight skink | Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands skink |
| Canterbury spotted skink | long-toed skink | McCann’s skink |
| MacGregor’s skink | small-scaled skink | Moko skink |
| Chatham Islands skink | Northland skink | southern skink |
| marbled skink | ornate skink | Otago skink |
| Sinbad skink | common New Zealand skink | Mackenzie skink |
| Eyres skink | Aorangi skink | shore skink |
| small-eared skink | striped skink | egg-laying skink |
| Open Bay Islands skink | Te Kakahu skink | Nevis skink |
| Towns’ skink | scree skink | Whitaker’s New Zealand skink |
| brown skink | ||
Ophiomorus |
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| Ophiomorus blanfordi | Ophiomorus brevipes | Ophiomorus chernovi |
| Ophiomorus kardesi | Ophiomorus latastii | Maranjab snake skink |
| Ophiomorus nuchalis | Ophiomorus persicus | limbless skink |
| Ophiomorus raithmai | Ophiomorus streeti | three-toed snake skink |
Ophioscincus |
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| Cooloola snake-skink | Yolk-bellied snake-skink | Short-limbed snake-skink |
Orosaura |
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| Venezuelan mountain skink | ||
Otosaurus |
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| Cuming’s sphenomorphus | ||
Pamelaescincus |
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| Gardiner’s burrowing skink | ||
Panaspis |
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| Guinea lidless skink | Annobón lidless skink | Peters’ lidless skink |
| Panaspis burgeoni | Cabinda lidless skink | Panaspis duruarum |
| Panaspis helleri | Speckle-lipped snake-eyed skink | Blue-tailed snake-eyed skink |
| Namibian snake-eyed skink | Nimba snake-eyed skink | Seydel’s snake-eyed skink |
| Boulenger’s dwarf skink | São Tomé leaf-litter skink | Togo lidless skink |
| Angolan snake-eyed skink | Wilson’s snake-eyed skink | |
Panopa |
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| Carvalho’s mabuya | Horton’s mabuya | |
Papuascincus |
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| Papuascincus buergersi | Papuascincus morokanus | Papuascincus phaeodes |
| Papuascincus stanleyanus | ||
Paracontias |
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| Paracontias ampijoroensis | Paracontias brocchii | Paracontias fasika |
| Paracontias hafa | Paracontias hildebrandti | Paracontias holomelas |
| Paracontias kankana | Paracontias mahamavo | Paracontias manify |
| Paracontias milloti | Paracontias minimus | Paracontias rothschildi |
| Paracontias tsararano | Paracontias vermisaurus | |
Parvoscincus |
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| Parvoscincus abstrusus | Parvoscincus agtorum | Parvoscincus arvindiesmosi |
| Parvoscincus aurorus | Parvoscincus banahaoensis | Parvoscincus beyeri |
| Parvoscincus boyingi | Parvoscincus decipiens | Parvoscincus duwendorum |
| Parvoscincus hadros | Parvoscincus igorotorum | Parvoscincus jimmymcguirei |
| Parvoscincus kitangladensis | Parvoscincus laterimaculatus | Parvoscincus lawtoni |
| Parvoscincus leucospilos | Parvoscincus luzonensis | Parvoscincus manananggalae |
| Parvoscincus palaliensis | Parvoscincus palawanensis | Parvoscincus sisoni |
| Parvoscincus steerei | Parvoscincus tagapayo | Parvoscincus tikbalangi |
Phaeoscincus |
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| Phaeoscincus ouinensis | Phaeoscincus taomensis | |
Phasmasaurus |
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| Phasmasaurus maruia | Phasmasaurus tillieri | |
Phoboscincus |
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| Terror skink | Garnier’s skink | |
Pinoyscincus |
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| Pinoyscincus abdictus | Cox’s sphenomorphus | Jagor’s sphenomorphus |
| Leyte sphenomorphus | Mindanao sphenomorphus | |
Plestiodon |
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| coal skink | Barbour’s skink | Plestiodon bilineatus |
| short-nosed skink | mountain skink | Plestiodon capito |
| Chinese Skink | Plestiodon colimensis | Plestiodon copei |
| Korean big skink | Plestiodon dicei | Dugès’ skink |
| Mole skink | Five-striped blue-tailed skink | Common five-lined skin |
| Plestiodon finitimus | Gilbert’s skink | Plestiodon indubitus |
| Southeastern five-lined skink | Japanese five-lined skink | Kishinouye’s giant skink |
| PLestiodon kuchinoshimensis | San Lucan skink | Broad-headed skink |
| Okada’s five-lined skink | Plestiodon leucostictus | Plestiodon liui |
| Bermuda rock skink | Plestiodon lotus | Oak forest skink |
| Ryūkyū five-lined skink | Plestiodon multilineatus | Many-lined skink |
| Plestiodon nietoi | Great Plains skink | Plestiodon ochoterenae |
| Plestiodon oshimensis | Northern pygmy skink | Southern pygmy skink |
| Plestiodon popei | Four-lined Asian skin | Florida sand skink |
| Prairie skink | Western skink | Yaeyama seven-lined skink |
| Plestiodon sumichrasti | Plestiodon takarai | Plestiodon tamdaoensis |
| Four-lined skink | Plestiodon tunganus | |
Prasinohaema |
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| Yellow-footed green-blooded skink | Prasinohaema parkeri | Prasinohaema prehensicauda |
| Prasinohaema semoni | Green green-blooded skink | |
Proablepharus |
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| Proablepharus reginae | Proablepharus tenuis | |
Proscelotes |
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| Proscelotes aenea | Proscelotes arnoldi | Proscelotes eggeli |
Pseudemoia |
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| Great Bight cool-skink | Alpine bog skink | Southern grass skink |
| Southern grass tussock skink | Rawlinson’s window-eyed skink | Trunk-climbing cool-skink |
Pseudoacontias |
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| Pseudoacontias angelorum | Pseudoacontias madagascariensis | Pseudoacontias menamainty |
| Pseudoacontias unicolor | ||
Psychosaura |
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| Psychosaura agmosticha | Hoge’s mabuya | |
Pygmaeascincus |
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| Fine-browed dwarf skink | Magnetic Island dwarf skink | Dwarf litter-skink |
Pygomeles |
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| Pygomeles braconnieri | Pygomeles petteri | Pygomeles trivittatus |
Cat skinks (Ristella) |
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| Beddome’s cat skink | Günther’s ristella | Rurk’s ristella |
| Travancore cat skink | ||
Saiphos |
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| Yellow-bellied three-toed skink | ||
Saproscincus |
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| Saproscincus basiliscus | Saproscincus challengeri | Saproscincus czechurai |
| Saproscincus eungellensis | Saproscincus hannahae | Saproscincus lewisi |
| Southern weasel skink | Saproscincus oriarius | Saproscincus rosei |
| Cape Melville shade skink | Pale-lipped shade skink | Saproscincus tetradactylus |
African Skinks (Scelotes) |
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| Scelotes anguineus | Scelotes arenicolus | Scelotes bidigittatus |
| Scelotes bipes | Scelotes bourquini | Scelotes caffer |
| Scelotes capensis | Scelotes duttoni | Scelotes fitzsimonsi |
| Gronovi’s dwarf burrowing skink | Günther’s dwarf burrowing skink | Scelotes inornatus |
| Scelotes insularis | Kasner’s dwarf burrowing skink | Limpopo burrowing skink |
| Scelotes mirus | Scelotes montispectus | Scelotes mossambicus |
| Scelotes poensis | Scelotes sexlineatus | Scelotes uluguruensis |
| Scelotes vestigifer | ||
Ground Skinks (Scincella) |
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| Scincella apraefrontalis | Scincella assata | Scincella barbouri |
| Scincella boettgeri | Scincella capitanea | Scincella caudaequinae |
| Scincella cherriei | Scincella darevskii | Scincella devorator |
| Scincella doriae | Scincella forbesorum | Scincella formosensis |
| Forest ground skink | Scincella huanrenensis | Scincella incerta |
| Scincella kikaapoa | Scincella lateralis | Scincella macrotis |
| Black ground skink | Scincella modesta | Scincella monticola |
| Scincella nigrofasciata | Scincella ochracea | Scincella potanini |
| Scincella przewalskii | Scincella punctatolineata | Scincella rara |
| Scincella reevesii | Scincella rufocaudata | Scincella rupicola |
| Scincella schmidti | Scincella sikimmensis | Scincella silvicola |
| Scincella tsinlingensis | Scincella vandenburghi | Scincella victoriana |
Scincopus |
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| Peters’s banded skink | ||
Scincus |
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| Scincus albifasciatus | Scincus hemprichii | Eastern sandfish/Eastern skink |
| Common sandfish/Common skink | ||
Scolecoseps |
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| Scolecoseps acontias | Scolecoseps boulengeri | Scolecoseps broadleyi |
| Scolecoseps litipoensis | ||
Sepsina |
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| Sepsina alberti | Sepsina angolensis | Sepsina bayoni |
| Sepsina copei | Sepsina tetradactyla | |
Sepsophis |
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| Spotted Eastern Ghats skink | ||
Sigaloseps |
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| Sigaloseps balios | Sigaloseps conditus | Sigaloseps deplanchei |
| Sigaloseps ferrugicauda | Sigaloseps pisinnus | Sigaloseps ruficauda |
Silvascincus |
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| Blue-speckled forest-skink | Border Ranges blue-spectacled skink | |
Simiscincus |
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| Oange-bellied burrowing skink | ||
Common Skinks (Sphenomorphus) |
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| Pointed-headed sphenomorphus | Sphenomorphus aignanus | Sphenomorphus alfredi |
| Sphenomorphus annectens | Sphenomorphus anomalopus | Sphenomorphus anotus |
| Sphenomorphus apalpebratus | Sphenomorphus bacboensis | Sphenomorphus bignelli |
| Sphenomorphus brunneus | Sphenomorphus buenloicus | Sphenomorphus buettikoferi |
| Sphenomorphus capitolythos | Sphenomorphus celebensis | Sphenomorphus cinereus |
| Sphenomorphus concinnatus | Sphenomorphus consobrinus | Sphenomorphus courcyanus |
| Sphenomorphus cranei | Sphenomorphus crassus | Sphenomorphus cryptotis |
| Sphenomorphus cyanolaemus | Sphenomorphus darlingtoni | Sphenomorphus dekkerae |
| Sphenomorphus derooyae | Sphenomorphus diwata | Dussumier’s forest skink |
| Banded sphenomorphus | Sphenomorphus forbesi | Sphenomorphus fragilis |
| Sphenomorphus fragosus | Sphenomorphus fuscolineatus | Sphenomorphus grandisonae |
| Sphenomorphus granulatus | Sphenomorphus haasi | Sphenomorphus helenae |
| Sphenomorphus incognitus | Indian forest skink | Sphenomorphus jobiensis |
| Sphenomorphus kinabaluensis | Sphenomorphus latifasciatus | Sphenomorphus leptofasciatus |
| Sphenomorphus lineopunctulatus | Sphenomorphus longicaudatus | Sphenomorphus loriae |
| Sphenomorphus louisiadensis | Spotted forest skink | Sphenomorphus maculicollus |
| Sphenomorphus maindroni | Sphenomorphus malaisei | Sphenomorphus malayanus |
| Sphenomorphus megalops | Sphenomorphus melanopogon | Sphenomorphus meyeri |
| Sphenomorphus microtympanus | Sphenomorphus mimicus | Sphenomorphus mimikanus |
| Sphenomorphus minutus | Sphenomorphus modiglianii | Müllers Keilskink |
| Sphenomorphus multisquamatus | Sphenomorphus murudensis | Sphenomorphus necopinatus |
| Sphenomorphus neuhaussi | Sphenomorphus nigriventris | Sphenomorphus nigrolabris |
| Sphenomorphus nigrolineatus | Sphenomorphus oligolepis | Sphenomorphus orientalis |
| Sphenomorphus papuae | Sphenomorphus praesignis | Sphenomorphus pratti |
| Sphenomorphus puncticentralis | Sphenomorphus rarus | Sphenomorphus rufus |
| Sabah slender skink | Sphenomorphus sananus | Sphenomorphus sanctus |
| Sphenomorphus sarasinorum | Sphenomorphus schlegeli | Sphenomorphus schultzei |
| Sphenomorphus scotophilus | Palauan skink | Sphenomorphus senja |
| Sphenomorphus sheai | Sphenomorphus shelfordi | Sphenomorphus simus |
| Sphenomorphus solomonis | Sphenomorphus stellatus | Sphenomorphus striolatus |
| Sphenomorphus sungaicolus | Sphenomorphus taiwanensis | Sphenomorphus tanahtinggi |
| Sphenomorphus tanneri | Sphenomorphus taylori | Sphenomorphus tenuiculus |
| Sphenomorphus tersus | Sphenomorphus tetradactylus | Sphenomorphus tonkinensis |
| Sphenomorphus transversus | Sphenomorphus tridigitus | Sphenomorphus tritaeniatus |
| Sphenomorphus tropidonotus | Sphenomorphus undulatus | Sphenomorphus vanheurni |
| Sphenomorphus variegatus | Sphenomorphus wollastoni | Sphenomorphus woodfordi |
| Sphenomorphus yersini | Sphenomorphus zimmeri | |
Antillean four-lined skinks (Spondylurus) |
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| Spondylurus anegadae | Spondylurus caicosae | Spondylurus culebrae |
| Spondylurus fulgidus | Spondylurus haitiae | Spondylurus lineolatus |
| Spondylurus macleani | Spondylurus magnacruzae | Spondylurus martinae |
| Spondylurus monae | Spondylurus monitae | Spondylurus nitidus |
| Anguilla Bank skink | Spondylurus semitaeniatus | Spondylurus semitaeniatus |
| Spondylurus sloanii | Spondylurus spilonotus | Spondylurus turksae |
Tachygia |
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| Tonga ground skink | ||
Techmarscincus |
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| Bartle Frere skink | ||
Blue-tongued Skinks or Tiliqua |
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| Adelaide pygmy blue-tongue skink | Indonesian blue-tongued skink | Centralian blue-tongued skink |
| Blotched blue-tongued skink | Western blue-tongued skink | Shingleback |
| Australian blue-tongued skink | Irian Jaya blue-tongued skink | |
Toenayar |
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| Anderson’s mabuya | ||
Trachylepis |
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| Wedge-snouted mabuya | Trachylepis adamastor | white-lipped skink |
| Trachylepis albotaeniata | Trachylepis angolensis | Noronha skink |
| Senegal mabuya | gold-spotted mabuya | Bayon’s skink |
| Benson’s mabuya | Betsileo mabuya | Ovambo tree skink |
| Bocage’s mabuya | Boettger’s mabuya | Boulenger’s mabuya |
| Ukinga Mountain skink | short-necked skink | Trachylepis buettneri |
| Cape three-lined skink | Trachylepis casuarinae | Chimba skink |
| Comoro Island skink | Trachylepis cristinae | Damara skink |
| Eastern coastal skink | Two-coloured skink | Trachylepis dumasi |
| Smart mabuya | Ferrara’s mabuya | Trachylepis gonwouoi |
| Madagascar jungle skink | Somali mabuya | Trachylepis hildebrandtii |
| Hoesch’s skink | Red-sided skink | Trachylepis infralineata |
| Alpine-meadow skink | Trachylepis keroanensis | Bronze rock skink |
| Variable skink | Angolan blue-tailed skink | Langheld’s skink |
| Trachylepis lavarambo | Trachylepis loluiensis | Trachylepis maculata |
| Speckle-lipped skink | Malagasy mabuya | Trachylepis makalowodei |
| Rainbow mabuya | Grass-top skink | Trachylepis mekuana |
| Mulanje skink | Trachylepis monardi | Nancy Coutu’s skink |
| Trachylepis nganghae | Western three-striped skink | Trachylepis ozorii |
| Tropical mabuya | Trachylepis pendeana | Fire-sided skink |
| Tree skink | Tropical mabuya | Trachylepis principensis |
| Trachylepis pulcherrima | Montane speckled skink | Speckled sand skink |
| Five-lined mabuya | Laurent’s long-tailed skink | Rodenburg’s mabuya |
| Seychelles skink | Trachylepis socotrana | Trachylepis sparsa |
| Kalahari tree skink | African striped mabuya | Western rock skink |
| Trachylepis tandrefana | Trachylepis tavaratra | Trachylepis tessellate |
| Trachylepis thomensis | Variable mabuya | Variegated skink |
| Boulder mabuya | Trachylepis vezo | Trachylepis volamenaloha |
| Wahlberg’s striped skink | Trachylepis wingati | Wright’s skink |
Crocodile Skinks or Tribolonotus |
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| Tribolonotus annectens | Tribolonotus blanchardi | Tribolonotus brongersmai |
| Tribolonotus choiseulensis | Red-eyed bush crocodile skink | Tribolonotus novaeguineae |
| Tribolonotus parkeri | Tribolonotus ponceleti | Tribolonotus pseudoponceleti |
| Tribolonotus schmidti | ||
Tropidophorus |
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| North-eastern waterskink | Tropidophorus baconi | Tropidophorus baviensis |
| Tropidophorus beccarii | Berdmore’s water skink | Tropidophorus boehmei |
| Tropidophorus brookei | Tropidophorus cocincinensis | Tropidophorus davaoensis |
| Gray’s water skink | Tropidophorus guangxiensis | Tropidophorus hainanus |
| Tropidophorus hangnam | Tropidophorus iniquus | Tropidophorus laotus |
| Tropidophorus latiscutatus | Tropidophorus matsuii | Tropidophorus microlepis |
| Tropidophorus micropus | Misamis waterside skink | Mocquard’s keeled skink |
| Tropidophorus murphyi | Tropidophorus noggei | Tropidophorus partelloi |
| Tropidophorus perplexus | Tropidophorus robinsoni | Tropidophorus sebi |
| Tropidophorus sinicus | Thai water skink | |
Tropidoscincus |
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| Aubrey’s whiptailed skink | Northern whiptailed skink | Southern whiptailed skink |
Tumbunascincus |
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| Tumbunascincus luteilateralis | ||
Typhlacontias |
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| FitzSimons’ burrowing skink | Typhlacontias punctatissimus | Typhlacontias gracilis |
| Typhlacontias johnsonii | Typhlacontias kataviensis | Typhlacontias rohani |
| Typhlacontias rudebecki | ||
Typhlosaurus |
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| Typhlosaurus braini | Typhlosaurus caecus | Lomi’s blind legless skink |
| Typhlosaurus meyeri | Typhlosaurus vermis | |
Tytthoscincus |
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| Tytthoscincus aesculeticola | Zamboanga sphenomorphus | Cursed-stone diminutive leaf-litter skink |
| Sulu sphenomorphus | Fraser’s Hill forest skink | Butler’s forest skink |
| Tytthoscincus cophias | Tytthoscincus hallieri | Tioman Island forest skink |
| Cameron Highlands | Tytthoscincus kakikecil | Tytthoscincus keciktuek |
| Scaly-eared diminutive leaf-litter skink | Hindu Temple forest skink | Sungai Bubu forest skink |
| Tytthoscincus panchorensis | Tytthoscincus parvus | Perhentian Island forest skink |
| Sibu Island forest skink | Singapore swamp skink | Temengor forest skink |
| Tytthoscincus temmincki | Tytthoscincus textus | |
Varzea |
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| Varzea altamazonica | Two-striped mabuya | |
Vietnascincus |
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| Vietnascincus rugosus | ||
Voeltzkowia |
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| Voeltzkowia mira | Voeltzkowia mobydick | Voeltzkowia yamagishii |
Habitat: Where Do Skinks Live
Skinks live in grasslands, mountains, and deserts. Except for polar and boreal regions, they are found everywhere.
Diet: What Do They Eat
Wild skinks are insectivorous and they enjoy caterpillars, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, and crickets. Slugs, snails, millipedes, earthworms, little rodents, and moths also form their diet. Pet skinks can thrive well with a fair share of vegetables along with carnivorous.
Reproduction and Life Cycle
Depending on the species, skinks could be oviparous, viviparous, and ovoviviparous. Egg-laying skinks build nests beforehand. In some species, males are aggressive enough to fight off other competitors to win over the affection of a female skink.
Are They Dangerous and Do They Bite
They are not aggressive and do not usually bite. That is the reason some of the species ae kept as pets.
How Long Does a Skink Live
A skink can live for 5-20 years.
Threats and Predators
Snakes, possums, hawks, herons, dogs, raccons, crows, coatis are common threats of skinks. Sometimes, other bigger lizards also prey on them.
Interesting Facts
- Bougainville’s skink and three-toed skink are can lay eggs and give birth to live young.
- They don’t need to eat every day.
- Their blood color is green, mainly because of the vile pigment Biliverdin.
- Skinks’ body color is similar to the environmnet they live in.
