''Tropidoscincus'' is a genus 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 ...
. They are all endemic to
New Caledonia
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Classification
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Tropidoscincus aubrianus''
Bocage, 1873 – Aubrey's whiptailed skink
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Tropidoscincus boreus''
Sadlier & Bauer, 2000 – northern whiptailed skink
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Tropidoscincus variabilis''
(Bavay, 1869) – southern whiptailed skink
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Nota bene
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binomial authority
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Tropidoscincus''.
References
Lizard genera
Taxa named by José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage
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