Sphenomorphus

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Genus of lizards

title: "Sphenomorphus" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["sphenomorphus", "lizard-genera", "taxa-named-by-leopold-fitzinger"] description: "Genus of lizards" topic_path: "general/sphenomorphus" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphenomorphus" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of lizards ::

::callout[type=note] a genus vernacularly known as common skinks ::

| name = Sphenomorphus | image = Hinulia nigrolabris.jpg | image_caption = Sphenomorphus nigrolabris | taxon = Sphenomorphus | authority = Fitzinger, 1843 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = Presently 113, but see text | synonyms =

The genus Sphenomorphus – vernacularly also known as the common skinks – currently serves as a "wastebin taxon" for numerous skinks. While most or all species presently placed here are probably rather close relatives, the genus as presently delimited is likely not to be monophyletic and needs review. Some species in this genus have been moved to Pinoyscincus.

The namesake of the Sphenomorphus group of Lygosominae genera, most species would probably occupy a rather basal position therein.

Species

"Hinulia" elegans, described by Gray in 1838, is unidentified, but may be Eulamprus tenuis, which is also known as Concinnia tenuis (Gray, 1831).

Geographic range

Species of Sphenomorphus are found mainly in Southeast Asia but have also been found in India and northwards to China.

References

References

  1. Greer et al. (2006).
  2. Austin & Arnold (2006).
  3. [[species:Bo Beolens. Beolens, Bo]]; [[species:Michael Watkins. Watkins, Michael]]; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN. 978-1-4214-0135-5. (''Sphenomorphus muelleri'', p. 184).
  4. {{EMBL species
  5. Shea & Michels (2008).

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