Eremiascincus

Eremiascincus
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Eremiascincus richardsonii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Lacertilia or Sauria
Infraorder:	Scincomorpha
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Eremiascincus Greer, 1979
Species
14 sp., see text
Synonyms
Glaphyromorphus Wells & Wellington, 1984

Eremiascincus is a genus of skinks endemic to Australia and Indonesia.

Species

The genus contains the following 14 valid species, listed alphabetically by specific name.

• Eremiascincus antoniorum (M.A. Smith, 1927)
• Eremiascincus brongersmai (Storr, 1972) – brown-sided bar-lipped skink
• Eremiascincus butlerorum (Aplin, How & Boeadi, 1993)
• Eremiascincus douglasi (Storr, 1967) – orange-sided bar-lipped skink
• Eremiascincus emigrans (Lidth de Jeude, 1895)
• Eremiascincus fasciolatus (Günther, 1867) – narrow-banded sand-swimmer
• Eremiascincus intermedius (Sternfeld, 1919)
• Eremiascincus isolepis (Boulenger, 1887) – northern bar-lipped skink
• Eremiascincus musivus Mecke, Doughty & Donnellan, 2009 – mosaic desert skink
• Eremiascincus pallidus (Günther, 1875)
• Eremiascincus pardalis (Macleay, 1877) – lowlands bar-lipped skink
• Eremiascincus phantasmus Mecke, Doughty & Donnellan, 2013
• Eremiascincus richardsonii (Gray, 1845) – broad-banded sand-swimmer
• Eremiascincus timorensis (Greer, 1990)

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Eremiascincus.

Further reading

• Greer AE. 1979. Eremiascincus, a new generic name for some Australian sand swimming skinks (Lacertilia: Scincidae). Rec. Australian Mus. 32 (7): 321-388. ("Eremiascincus New Genus", p. 323).