• Source: Carinascincus

Carinascincus is a genus of skinks (family Scincidae), commonly called snow skinks or cool-skinks and residing mainly in Tasmania or Victoria, Australia. Then recognised as the genus Niveoscincus, it was found to belong to a clade with the genera Carlia, Lampropholis and others of the Eugongylus group within Lygosominae. Cogger has rejected the use of the junior name Niveoscincus and recognizes the valid senior generic name Carinascincus for the group. For similar skinks see genera Pseudemoia, Lampropholis, and Bassiana. These skinks have adapted to the cooler weather of southern Australia and particularly Tasmania, hence the common names.




Species


Carinascincus coventryi (Rawlinson, 1975) – southern forest cool-skink
Carinascincus greeni (Rawlinson, 1975) – alpine cool-skink or northern snow skink
Carinascincus metallicus (O'Shaughnessy, 1874) – metallic skink or metallic cool-skink
Carinascincus microlepidotus (O'Shaughnessy, 1874) – boulder cool-skink or southern snow skink
Carinascincus ocellatus (Gray, 1845) – spotted skink, ocellated cool-skink, or ocellated skink
Carinascincus orocryptus (Hutchinson, Schwaner & Medlock, 1988) – Tasmanian mountain skink, heath cool-skink, or mountain skink
Carinascincus palfreymani (Rawlinson, 1974) – Pedra Branca skink, Pedra Branca cool-skink, or red-throated skink
Carinascincus pretiosus (O'Shaughnessy, 1874) – Tasmanian tree skink or agile cool-skink




References






Further reading


Hutchinson MN, Donnellan SC, Baverstock PR, Krieg M, Simms S, Burgin S (1990). "Immunological Relationships and Generic Revision of the Australian Lizards Assigned to the Genus Leiolopisma (Scincidae, Lygosominae)". Australian J. Zool. 38 (5): 535–554. (Niveoscincus, new genus).
Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-064 310 0350.
Wells, Richard W.; Wellington, C. Ross (1985). "A Classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia". Australian Journal of Herpetology, Supplemental Series (1): 1-61. (Carinascincus, new genus, p. 24).

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Carinascincus
• Carinascincus orocryptus
• Carinascincus ocellatus
• Metallic skink
• Carinascincus microlepidotus
• Carinascincus coventryi
• Alpine cool-skink
• Pedra Branca skink
• Skink
• Tasmanian tree skink