Lampropholis

Taxobox
name = "Lampropholis"

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = Common Garden Skink, "Lampropholis guichenoti"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia (paraphyletic)
unranked_ordo = Sauria
ordo = Squamata (paraphyletic)
infraordo = Scincomorpha
familia = Scincidae
subfamilia = Lygosominae
genus = "Lampropholis"
genus_authority =
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = 11, see text

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

pecies

* "Lampropholis adonis"
* "Lampropholis amicula"
* "Lampropholis caligula"
* "Lampropholis coggeri"
* "Lampropholis colossus"
* "Lampropholis couperi"
* Rainbow skink, "Lampropholis delicata"
* "Lampropholis elongata"
* Common Garden Skink or Pale-flecked Garden Sunskink, "Lampropholis guichenoti"
* "Lampropholis mirabilis"
* "Lampropholis robertsi"

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)