Lipinia is a genus of skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae. Species in the genus Lipinia are commonly called lipinias.
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| Lipinia pulchella | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Sphenomorphinae |
| Genus: | Lipinia Gray, 1845 |
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Taxonomy
editThe genus Lipinia belongs to the Sphenomorphus group of genera in which Lipinia has a rather basal position (Austin & Arnold 2006).
Species
editThe following species are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Lipinia auriculata (Taylor, 1917) – Taylor's lipinia
- Lipinia cheesmanae (Parker, 1940) – Cheesman's lipinia,[2] Cheesman's moth skink
- Lipinia inconspicua (Müller, 1894) – hidden ground skink
- Lipinia inexpectata Das & C. Austin, 2007
- Lipinia infralineolata (A. Günther, 1873)
- Lipinia leptosoma (W. Brown & Fehlmann, 1958) – slender lipinia, Pandanus skink
- Lipinia longiceps (Boulenger, 1895) – long lipinia
- Lipinia macrotympanum (Stoliczka, 1873) – big-eared lipinia
- Lipinia miangensis (F. Werner, 1910) – Werner's lipinia
- Lipinia microcerca (Boettger, 1901) – banded lipinia, Sipora striped skink, common striped skink
- Lipinia nitens (W. Peters, 1871)
- Lipinia occidentalis R. Günther, 2000
- Lipinia pulchella Gray, 1845 – yellow-striped slender tree skink, beautiful lipinia
- Lipinia quadrivittata (W. Peters, 1867) – four-striped lipinia, black-striped slender tree skink
- Lipinia rabori (W. Brown & Alcala, 1956) – Rabor's lipinia, black slender tree skink
- Lipinia relicta (Vinciguerra, 1892) – Vinciguerra's lipinia
- Lipinia rouxi (Hediger, 1934) – Roux's lipinia
- Lipinia sekayuensis Grismer et al., 2014 – Sekayu striped skink
- Lipinia semperi (W. Peters, 1867) – Semper's lipinia
- Lipinia septentrionalis R. Günther, 2000
- Lipinia subvittata (A. Günther, 1873) – striped lipinia
- Lipinia surda Boulenger, 1900 – Malaysian striped skink
- Lipinia trivittata Poyarkov, Geissler, Gorin, Dunayev, Hartmann & Suwannapoom, 2019
- Lipinia vassilievi Poyarkov, Geissler, Gorin, Dunayev, Hartmann & Suwannapoom, 2019
- Lipinia venemai Brongersma, 1953 – Brongersma's lipinia
- Lipinia vittigera (Boulenger, 1894) – banded lipinia, Sipora striped skink, common striped skink
- Lipinia vulcania Girard, 1858 – vulcan lipinia
- Lipinia zamboangensis (W. Brown & Alcala, 1963) – Zamboang lipinia, rusty tree skink
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Lipinia.
References
edit- ^ Genus Lipinia at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Lipinia cheesmanae, p. 52).
Further reading
edit- Gray, J.E. (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. (Lipinia, new genus, p. 84).
External links
edit- Austin, J.J. & Arnold, E.N. (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)
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