''Concinnia'' is a

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skink Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae, a family in the infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different taxonomic genera, the family Scincidae is one of the most diverse families of lizards. Ski ...

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Lygosominae 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 s ...

Taxonomy and systematics

The genus ''Concinnia'' belongs to the Australian Sphenomorphid

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that contains other

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Ctenotus ''Ctenotus'' is a genus of skinks (family Scincidae). The genus belongs to a clade in the ''Sphenomorphus'' group which contains such genera as '' Anomalopus'' and the close relatives '' Eulamprus'' and '' Gnypetoscincus''. Lizards in the gen ...

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Anomalopus ''Anomalopus'' is a genus of worm-skinks, smallish smooth-scaled burrowing lizards in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to the eastern half of Australia. The genus belongs to a clade in the ''Sphenomorphus'' group which contains such ge ...

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Eulamprus ''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'' grou ...

'' water skinks. This genus was raised by Skinner et al.(2013) based on molecular phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences, which showed that five sampled species from the ''Eulamprus tenuis'' group formed a well supported clade with the then monotypic genera '' Gnypetoscincus'' and ''

Nangura ''Nangura spinosa'', the Nangur spiny skink or Nangur skink, is a lizard known from two patches of dry-rainforest in South East Queensland, Australia. It was formerly placed in the monotypic genus ''Nangura'' but was moved to ''Concinnia'' follow ...

''. Wells and Wellington (1983) coined the name ''Concinnia'' and applied it to the ''Eulamprus tenuis'' group delimited by Greer (1989). Although this ''tenuis'' group may form a clade it did not receive strong support in molecular phylogenetic analyses, with ''C. amplus'' and ''C. frerei'' forming deep lineages of uncertain position relative to ''C. queenslandiae'' and ''C. spinosus''. Consequently, Skinner et al. (2013) united the well supported broader clade, including ''Gnypetoscincus'' and ''Nangura'' in ''Concinnia'', including ''C. frerei'' and ''C. sokosoma'' based on the work of O'Connor and Moritz (2003). Skinner and co-authors (2013) further restricted the genus ''Eulamprus'' to the water skinks assigned by Greer (1989) to the ''Eulamprus quoyii'' group and created two new genera; Silvascincus for species in Greer's (1989) '' Eulamprus murrayi'' group (including ''E. murrayi'' and ''E. tryoni''), and '' Tumbunascincus'' for '' Eulamprus luteilateralis''.

Species

There are currently 7 recognized species: * '' Concinnia ampla'' Covacevich & McDonald, 1980 – lemon-barred forest-skink * '' Concinnia brachyosoma'' ( Lönnberg and

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'' Greer, 1992 – stout barsided skink * '' Concinnia martini'' Wells & Wellington, 1983 – dark barsided skink * '' Concinnia sokosoma'' Greer, 1992 – stout barsided skink * '' Concinnia tenuis'' (

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, 1831) bar-sided forest-skink, barred-sided skink * '' Concinnia tigrina'' (

De Vis Charles Walter de Vis (Birmingham, England, 9 May 1829 – Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 30 April 1915),

, 1888) – yellow-blotched forest-skink, rainforest water-skink '' Hinulia elegans'', described by Gray in 1838, is an unidentified lygosomine that may be '' Concinnia tenuis''.Shea & Michels (2008).

Taxonomy and systematics

Species

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