''Liburnascincus'' is a
genus
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of
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. All are endemic to
Australia
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.
Species
The following 4
species
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, listed alphabetically by
specific name, are recognized as being valid:
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Liburnascincus artemis''
Hoskin & Couper, 2015
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Liburnascincus coensis''
(Mitchell, 1953) – Coen rainbow-skink
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Liburnascincus mundivensis''
(Broom, 1898) – Outcrop rainbow-skink
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Liburnascincus scirtetis''
(Ingram & Covacevich, 1980) – Black Mountain rainbow-skink, Black Mountain skink
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Nota bene
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It is often abbreviated as NB, n.b., or with the ligature
and first appeared in English writing . In Modern English, it is used, particularly in legal papers, to draw the atten ...
'': A
binomial authority
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in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Liburnascincus''.
References
Lizard genera
Taxa named by Richard Walter Wells
Taxa named by Cliff Ross Wellington
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