A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Scincidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Triodia Earless SkinkHemiergis millewae Coventry, 1976 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lowlands Earless SkinkHemiergis peronii (Gray, 1831) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Two-toed Earless SkinkHemiergis quadrilineatus (Duméril & Bibron, 1839) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Victoria Three-toed Earless SkinkHemiergis talbingoensis Copland, 1946 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Golden Grass MabuyaHeremites septemtaeniatus (Reuss, 1834) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Negros SphenomorphusInsulasaurus arborens (Taylor, 1917) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Insulasaurus traanorum (Linkem, Diesmos & Brown, 2010) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Insulasaurus victoria (Brown & Alcala, 1980) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Wright's SphenomorphusInsulasaurus wrighti Taylor, 1925 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lang's IsopachysIsopachys borealis Lang & Böhme, 1990 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Janetaescincus braueri (Boettger, 1896) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi (Parker, 1947) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Jarujinia bipedalis Chan-Ard, Makchai & Cota, 2011 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kaestlea beddomii (Boulenger, 1887) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Two-lined Ground SkinkKaestlea bilineata (Gray, 1846) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Side-spotted skinkKaestlea laterimaculata (Boulenger, 1887) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kaestlea palnica (Boettger, 1892) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Travancore Ground SkinkKaestlea travancorica (Beddome, 1870) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kanakysaurus viviparus Sadlier, Bauer, Smith & Whitaker, 2004 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kanakysaurus zebratus Sadlier, Bauer, Smith & Whitaker, 2008 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kuniesaurus albiauris Sadlier, Deuss, Bauer & Jourdan, 2019 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chris-Wild’s Snake-eyed skinkLacertaspis chriswildi (Böhme & Schmitz, 1996) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sjostedt's Five-toed SkinkLacertaspis gemmiventris (Sjöstedt, 1897) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Angel's Five-toed SkinkLacertaspis lepesmei (Angel, 1940) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lacertaspis reichenowii (Peters, 1874) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gaboon Lidless SkinkLacertaspis rohdei (Müller, 1910) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| New Caledonian Leopard SkinkLacertoides pardalis Sadlier, Shea & Bauer, 1997 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lamprolepis leucosticta (Müller, 1923) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Nieuwenhuis' SkinkLamprolepis nieuwenhuisii (Lidth de Jeude, 1905) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Emerald SkinkLamprolepis smaragdina (Lesson, 1829) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Diamond Shielded SunskinkLampropholis adonis Ingram, 1991 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Friendly SunskinkLampropholis amicula Ingram & Rawlinson, 1981 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bellenden Ker sunskinkLampropholis bellendenkerensis Singhal, Hoskin, Couper, Potter & Moritz, 2018 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Montane SunskinkLampropholis caligula Ingram & Rawlinson, 1981 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rainforest SunskinkLampropholis coggeri Ingram, 1991 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bunya SunskinkLampropholis colossus Ingram, 1991 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Plain-backed SunskinkLampropholis couperi Ingram, 1991 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dark-flecked garden sunskinkLampropholis delicata (de Vis, 1888) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Elongate sunskinkLampropholis elongata Greer, 1997 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Garden SkinkLampropholis guichenoti (Duméril & Bibron, 1839) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scawfell Island SunskinkLampropholis isla Hoskin, 2025 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Grey-bellied SunskinkLampropholis robertsi Ingram, 1991 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Deignan Tree SkinkLankascincus deignani (Taylor, 1950) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lankascincus dorsicatenatus (Deraniyagala, 1953) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Peters' Tree SkinkLankascincus fallax (Peters, 1860) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gans' Tree SkinkLankascincus gansi Greer, 1991 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Merrill‟s Lanka-skinkLankascincus merrill Wickramasinghe, Vidanapathirana & Wickramasinghe, 2020 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sripada forest skinkLankascincus sripadensis Mendis Wickramasinghe, Rodrigo, Dayawansa & Jayantha, 2007 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ceylon Tree SkinkLankascincus taprobanensis (Kelaart, 1854) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Taylor's Tree SkinkLankascincus taylori Greer, 1991 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.