page_title: Lygosominae
hierarchical_section_title: Lygosominae
caption_attribution_description: English: Ctenotus pantherinus identified on Angas Downs during reptile surveys using pitfalls and funnel traps.
context_page_description: Lygosominae is the largest subfamily of skinks in the family Scincidae. The subfamily can be divided into a number of genus groups. If the rarely used taxonomic rank of infrafamily is employed, the genus groups would be designated as such, but such a move would require a formal description according to the ICZN standards.
  Also, several Lygosominae genera were notorious "wastebin taxa" in the past, with scientists assigning more or less closely related species to them in a haphazard fashion and without verifying that the new species were close relatives of the genera's type species. What was once placed in Lygosoma, for example, is now divided among some 15 genera. Similarly, Mabuya and Sphenomorphus are having species moved elsewhere even today. Obsolete genera include Euprepis.
  Egernia group
  Corucia – Solomon Islands skink
  Cyclodomorphus
  Egernia –
  Tiliqua – blue-tongued skinks
  Eugongylus group
  Bassiana – "cool-skins"
  Carlia – four-fingered skinks
  Cryptoblepharus – snake-eyed skinks, shining-skinks
  Emoia – emoias
  Eugongylus – mastiff skinks, short-legged giant skinks
  Lampropholis – Indo-Australian ground skinks
  Leiolopisma
  Niveoscincus – snow skinks, "cool-skins"
  Oligosoma
context_section_description: Lygosominae is the largest subfamily of skinks in the family Scincidae. The subfamily can be divided into a number of genus groups. If the rarely used taxonomic rank of infrafamily is employed, the genus groups would be designated as such, but such a move would require a formal description according to the ICZN standards.
  Also, several Lygosominae genera were notorious "wastebin taxa" in the past, with scientists assigning more or less closely related species to them in a haphazard fashion and without verifying that the new species were close relatives of the genera's type species. What was once placed in Lygosoma, for example, is now divided among some 15 genera. Similarly, Mabuya and Sphenomorphus are having species moved elsewhere even today. Obsolete genera include Euprepis.
  Egernia group
  Corucia – Solomon Islands skink
  Cyclodomorphus
  Egernia – (paraphyletic: including Bellatorias, Liopholis and Lissolepis, which are better regarded as distinct)
  Tiliqua – blue-tongued skinks
  Eugongylus group
  Bassiana (= Acritoscincus) – "cool-skins"
  Carlia – four-fingered skinks
  Cryptoblepharus – snake-eyed skinks, shining-skinks
  Emoia – emoias
  Eugongylus – mastiff skinks, short-legged giant skinks
  Lampropholis – Indo-Australian ground skinks
  Leiolopisma
  Niveoscincus – snow skinks, "cool-skins"
  Oligosoma
  Mabuya group
  Chioninia – Cape Verde mabuyas (formerly in Mabuya)
  Dasia — Southeast Asian tree skinks, including Apterygodon (now considered to be part of Dasia)
  Eumecia — Central African elongated skinks 
  Eutropis – Asian (formerly in Mabuya)
  Heremites — Mediterranean (North Africa and Middle Eastern species) 
  Mabuya – American mabuyas
  Toenayar — composed of a single species in India/Indochina 
  Trachylepis – Afro-Malagasy mabuyas (formerly in Mabuya)
  Sphenomorphus group 
  Anomalopus – worm-skinks
  Ctenotus – comb-eared skinks
  Eulamprus – water skinks
  Glaphyromorphus 
  Gnypetoscincus – Prickly Skink
  Insulasaurus 
  Lipinia – lipinias
  Otosaurus 
  Parvoscincus 
  Pinoyscincus 
  Scincella – ground skinks 
  Sphenomorphus – common skinks (paraphyletic) 
  Tytthoscincus 
  Undetermined
  Eremiascincus
  Hemisphaeriodon – pink-tongued skinks
  Lamprolepis – tree skinks
  Lerista
  Lobulia
  Lygosoma – writhing skinks
  Saproscincus – shade skinks
  Tribolonotus – crocodile skinks (Egernia group?)
  "Hinulia" elegans, described by Grey in 1838, is unidentified, but may be Eulamprus tenuis.
caption: Ctenotus pantherinus ocellifer at Angas Downs
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