Carlia

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): 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