Carlia

Carlia
Carlia rubrigularis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Subfamily:	Eugongylinae
Genus:	Carlia Gray, 1845

Carlia is a genus of lizards, commonly known as four-fingered skinks or rainbow skinks, in the subfamily Eugongylinae of the family Scincidae. 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.

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):

See also

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

References

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).