The translucent litter-skink (''Lygisaurus macfarlani'') is a species 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 ...

found in Queensland in

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

and Papua New Guinea. The

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, ''macfarlani'', is in honor of English Missionary Samuel Macfarlane (1837–1911).Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Lygisaurus macfarlani'', p. 164; ''Lygisaurus tanneri'', p. 260).

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Lygisaurus Reptiles described in 1877 Skinks of Australia Taxa named by Albert Günther {{Skink-stub