Carlia

"four-fingered skink" redirects here. For the four-fingered skink species in Sepsina, see Sepsina tetradactyla.

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]

Carlia
Carlia rubrigularis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Scinciformata
Infraorder:	Scincomorpha
Superfamily:	Lygosomoidea
Family:	Eugongylidae
Genus:	Carlia Gray, 1845[1]

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)