Cyclodomorphus

Cyclodomorphus is a genus of small to medium-sized skinks (family Scincidae).[1] It belongs to the Egernia group which also includes the blue-tongued skinks (Austin & Arnold 2006).

Cyclodomorphus
She-oak skink (Cyclodomorphus casuarinae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Subfamily: Egerniinae
Genus: Cyclodomorphus
Fitzinger, 1843
Type species
Cyclodus casuarinae
Duméril and Bibron, 1839
Species

9, see text.

Species
  • Cyclodomorphus branchialis (Günther, 1867) - common slender bluetongue, Gunther's skink
  • Cyclodomorphus casuarinae (Duméril & Bibron, 1839) - she-oak slender bluetongue, she-oak skink
  • Cyclodomorphus celatus Shea & Miller, 1995 - western slender blue-tongue
  • Cyclodomorphus gerrardii (JE Gray, 1845) pink-tongued skink, pink-tongued lizard
  • Cyclodomorphus maximus (Storr, 1976) - giant slender bluetongue
  • Cyclodomorphus melanops (Stirling & Zietz, 1893) - Samphire slender bluetongue
  • Cyclodomorphus michaeli Wells & Wellington, 1984 - coastal she-oak slender bluetongue
  • Cyclodomorphus praealtus Shea, 1995 - alpine she-oak skink, alpine she-oak slender bluetongue
  • Cyclodomorphus venustus Shea & Miller, 1995 - slender bluetongue
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See also
  • Hemisphaeriodon

References
  1. "Cyclodomorphus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  • Austin, J.J. & Arnold, E.N. (2006): Using ancient and recent DNA to explore relationships of extinct and endangered Leiolopisma skinks (Reptilia: Scincidae) in the Mascarene islands. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39(2): 503–511. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.12.011 (HTML abstract)


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