Carlia

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Subordo: Scincomorpha
Superfamilia: Scincoidea

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Eugongylinae
Genus: Carlia
Species (46): C. aenigma – C. ailanpalai – C. amax – C. aramia – C. babarensis – C. beccarii – C. bicarinata – C. bomberai – C. caesius – C. crypta – C. decora – C. diguliensis – C. dogare – C. eothen – C. fusca – C. gracilis – C. inconnexa – C. insularis – C. isostriacantha – C. jarnoldae – C. johnstonei – C. leucotaenia – C. longipes – C. luctuosa – C. munda – C. mysi – C. nigrauris – C. pectoralis – C. peronii – C. pulla – C. quinquecarinata – C. rhomboidalis – C. rostralis – C. rubigo – C. rubrigularis – C. rufilatus – C. schmeltzii – C. sexdentata – C. spinauris – C. storri – C. sukur – C. tetradactyla – C. triacantha – C. tutela – C. vivax – C. wundalthini
Name

Carlia Gray, 1845: 271

Type species: Mocoa melanopogon Gray, 1845, by monotypy.

Synonyms

Myophila De Vis, 1884: 77
Type species: Myophila vivax De Vis, 1884, by monotypy.

References
Primary references

Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees of die British Museum/Edward Newman: London. xxvii + 289 pp. BHL Reference page.
De Vis, C.W. 1884. New Queensland lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 1: 77–78. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Dolman, G. & Hugall, A.F. 2008. Combined mitochondrial and nuclear data enhance resolution of a rapid radiation of Australian rainbow skinks (Scincidae: Carlia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49(3): 782–794. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.09.021 Paywall Reference page.
Donnellan, S.C., Couper, P.J., Saint, K.M. & Wheaton, L. 2009. Systematics of the Carlia ‘fusca’ complex (Reptilia: Scincidae) from northern Australia. Zootaxa 2227(1): 1–31. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2227.1.1 Paywall Reference page.
Hoskin, C.J. & Couper, P.J. 2012. Description of two new Carlia species (Reptilia: Scincidae) from north-east Australia, elevation of Carlia pectoralis inconnexa Ingram & Covacevich 1989 to full species status, and redescription of Carlia pectoralis (de Vis 1884). Zootaxa 3546(1): 1–28. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3546.1.1 Open access Reference page.
Afonso Silva, A.C., Santos, N., Ogilvie, H.A. & Moritz, C. 2017. Validation and description of two new north-western Australian Rainbow skinks with multispecies coalescent methods and morphology. PeerJ 5: e3724. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3724 Open access Reference page.
Singhal, S., Hoskin, C.J., Couper, P., Potter, S. & Moritz, C. 2018. A framework for resolving cryptic species: a case study from the lizards of the Australian Wet Tropics. Systematic Biology 67(6): 1061–1075. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syy026 Open access Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2021. Carlia . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 4 March 2020.
Carlia – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Vernacular names
English: Australian-Pacific Rainbow-skinks

Carlia is a genus of skinks, commonly known as four-fingered skinks or rainbow skinks, in the subfamily Eugongylinae.[2] Before being placed in this new subfamily, Carlia was recovered in a clade with the genera Niveoscincus, Lampropholis, and others of the Eugongylus group within Lygosominae.[3]

Species

The genus Carlia contains the following species (n.b., a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Carlia):[4]

Carlia aenigma (Zug, 2004) – enigmatic rainbow skink
Carlia ailanpalai (Zug, 2004) – curious skink
Carlia amax (Storr, 1974) – bauxite rainbow-skink
Carlia aramia (Zug, 2004) – Aramia rainbow skink
Carlia babarensis (Kopstein, 1926)
Carlia beccarii (W. Peters & Doria, 1878)
Carlia bicarinata (Macleay, 1877) – rainbow-skink
Carlia bomberai (Zug & Allison, 2006)
Carlia caesius (Zug & Allison, 2006)
Carlia crypta Singhal, Hoskin, Couper, Potter, & Moritz, 2018
Carlia decora Hoskin & Couper, 2012 – elegant rainbow-skink
Carlia diguliensis (Kopstein, 1926) – Digul River rainbow skink
Carlia dogare (Covacevich & Ingram, 1975) – sandy rainbow-skink
Carlia eothen (Zug, 2004)
Carlia fusca (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – brown four-fingered skink, Indonesian brown skink
Carlia gracilis (Storr, 1974) – slender rainbow-skink
Carlia inconnexa Ingram & Covacevich, 1989 – Whitsunday rainbow-skink
Carlia insularis Afonso-Silva, Santos, Ogilvie & Moritz, 2017 – Kimberley islands rainbow-skink
Carlia isostriacantha Afonso-Silva, Santos, Ogilvie & Moritz, 2017 – Monsoonal three-keeled rainbow-skink
Carlia jarnoldae (Covacevich & Ingram, 1975) – lined rainbow-skink
Carlia johnstonei (Storr, 1974) – rough brown rainbow-skink
Carlia leucotaenia (Bleeker, 1860)
Carlia longipes (Macleay, 1877) – closed-litter rainbow-skink
Carlia luctuosa (W. Peters & Doria, 1878)
Carlia munda (De Vis, 1885) – shaded-litter rainbow-skink
Carlia mysi (Zug, 2004) – Mys's rainbow skink
Carlia nigrauris (Zug, 2010)
Carlia pectoralis (De Vis, 1885) – open-litter rainbow-skink
Carlia peronii (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839)
Carlia pulla (T. Barbour, 1911)
Carlia quinquecarinata (Macleay, 1877) – five-keeled rainbow-skink, five-carinated rainbow-skink
Carlia rhomboidalis (W. Peters, 1869) – blue-throated rainbow-skink
Carlia rostralis (De Vis, 1885) – black-throated rainbow-skink, hooded rainbow skink
Carlia rubigo Hoskin & Couper, 2012 – orange-flanked rainbow-skink
Carlia rubrigularis (Ingram & Covacevich, 1989) – red-throated rainbow-skink, northern red-throated skink
Carlia rufilatus (Storr, 1974) – red-sided rainbow-skink
Carlia schmeltzii (W. Peters, 1867) – robust rainbow-skink, Schmeltz's skink
Carlia sexdentata (Macleay, 1877) – six-toothed rainbow-skink
Carlia spinauris (Smith, 1927)
Carlia storri (Ingram & Covacevich, 1989) – brown bicarinate rainbow-skink
Carlia sukur Zug & Kaiser, 2014 – Sukur four-toed skink
Carlia tetradactyla (O'Shaughnessy, 1879) – southern rainbow-skink
Carlia triacantha (Mitchell, 1953) – desert rainbow-skink
Carlia tutela (Zug, 2004)
Carlia vivax (De Vis, 1884) – lively rainbow-skink, tussock rainbow-skink
Carlia wundalthini (Hoskin, 2014) – Cape Melville rainbow skink

See also

All pages with titles beginning with Carlia
All pages with titles containing Carlia
Carlina (name)

References

"Carlia Gray, 1845". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
Uetz, P.; Freed, P.; Hošek, J. (eds.). "Eugongylinae". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
Austin JJ, Arnold EN (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. PMID 16473026.

Carlia at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database

Further reading

Dolman G, Hugall AF (2008). "Combined mitochondrial and nuclear data enhance resolution of a rapid radiation of Australian rainbow skinks (Scincidae: Carlia)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49 (3): 782–794.
Gray JE (1845). Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxviii + 289 pp. (Carlia, new genus, p. 271).