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Lissolepis

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Lissolepis
Eastern mourning skink (Lissolepis coventryi)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Subfamily: Egerniinae
Genus: Lissolepis
Peters, 1872
Species

2 species (see text)

Lissolepis is a genus of mid-sized skinks (adult snout-vent length 100–130 mm) with a bulky angular body and small eyes. 20–28 rows of midbody scales; dorsal scales smooth. The nasal scale has a postnarial groove; the subocular scale row is complete. Eyelids similar in colour to the adjacent scales.[1] They were previously placed in the genus Egernia.

Species

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Image Name Distribution
Lissolepis coventryi (Storr, 1978) – eastern mourning skink South Australia, Victoria, and possibly New South Wales.
Lissolepis luctuosa (W. Peters, 1866) – western mourning skink, western glossy swamp skink Western Australia

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

References

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  1. ^ Gardner, Michael G.; Hugall, Andrew F.; Donnellan, Stephen C.; Hutchinson, Mark N.; Foster, Ralph (2008). "Molecular systematics of social skinks: phylogeny and taxonomy of the Egernia group (Reptilia: Scincidae)". Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 154 (4): 781-794. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00422.x (HTML abstract).