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Eulamprus
Sign in to saveEulamprus is a genus of lizards, commonly known as water skinks, in the subfamily Sphenomorphinae of the family Scincidae. The genus is native to Australia.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassSquamata
- FamilyScincidae
Eulamprus es un género de lagartos perteneciente a la familia Scincidae. Se distribuyen por Australia y Tasmania.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 63
- Family
- Scincidae
- Collections
- BYU, NMV, AM, QM, WAM
- Recorded in
- Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Lygosominae
- Image
- Golden Water Skink Side.JPG
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- Eulamprus
- taxon name
- Eulamprus
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Eulamprus
- endemic to
- Australia
- taxon author citation
- Fitzinger, 1843
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Taxonomy
- Species
- Species formerly placed in ''Eulamprus''
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Eulamprus is a genus of lizards, commonly known as water skinks, in the subfamily Sphenomorphinae of the family Scincidae. The genus is native to Australia.
==Taxonomy== The genus Eulamprus belongs to a clade in the Sphenomorphus group that contains other genera such as Ctenotus and Anomalopus. The molecular phylogenetic studies of O'Connor and Moritz (2003) and Skinner et al. (2013) found that species assigned to Eulamprus comprised four independent lineages within the Australian Sphenomorphus group and did not form a clade. The genus Eulamprus was restricted to the water skinks, with other species assigned to Concinnia (including species formerly in the monotypic genera Gnypetoscincus and Nangura), Silvascincus and Tumbunascincus.
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