''Emoia'' 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 ...

s, lizards in the

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Eugongylinae Eugongylinae is a subfamily of skinks within the family Scincidae. The genera in this subfamily were previously found to belong the '' Eugongylus'' group in the large subfamily Lygosominae. Genera The subfamily Eugongylinae contains 469 speci ...

. The genus ''Emoia'' belongs to a group of

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mainly from the southwestern

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n region. These small skinks are commonly known as emoias or skinks.

Species

List of 78 valid ''Emoia'' species and their respective authors, geographical ranges, and common names from the

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in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Emoia''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q898029 Lizard genera Taxa named by John Edward Gray