THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shrubland Morethia SkinkMorethia obscura Storr, 1972 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lined Firetail SkinkMorethia ruficauda (Lucas & Frost, 1895) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Top End Firetail SkinkMorethia storri Greer, 1981 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Fire-Tailed SkinkMorethia taeniopleura (Peters, 1874) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Nangur (Spiny) SkinkNangura spinosa Covacevich, Couper & James, 1993 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Nannoscincus exos Bauer & Sadlier, 2000 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Nannoscincus fuscus Günther, 1872 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Nannoscincus garrulus Sadlier, Bauer & Smith, 2006 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| New Caledonian Gracile Dwarf SkinkNannoscincus gracilis (Bavay, 1869) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Greer's Elf SkinkNannoscincus greeri Sadlier, 1987 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Nannoscincus hanchisteus Bauer & Sadlier, 2000 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Nannoscincus humectus Bauer & Sadlier, 2000 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Nannoscincus koniambo Sadlier, Bauer, Whitaker & Wood, 2014 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Nannoscincus manautei Sadlier, Bauer, Whitaker & Smith, 2004 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Nannoscincus mariei (Bavay, 1869) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rankin's Elf SkinkNannoscincus rankini Sadlier, 1987 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Slevin's Elf SkinkNannoscincus slevini (Loveridge, 1941) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Neopalaia pulchra (Boulenger, 1903) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Two-legged NessiaNessia bipes Smith, 1935 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Burton's NessiaNessia burtonii Gray, 1839 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Deraniyagala's NessiaNessia deraniyagalai Taylor, 1950 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Two-toed NessiaNessia didactyla (Deraniyagala, 1934) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hickanala NessiaNessia hickanala Deraniyagala, 1940 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Layard's NessiaNessia layardi (Kelaart, 1853) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| One-toed NessiaNessia monodactyla (Gray, 1839) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Muller's NessiaNessia sarasinorum (Müller, 1889) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cope's MabuyaNotomabuya frenata (Cope, 1863) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lined Soil-crevis SkinkNotoscincus butleri Storr, 1979 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ornate Soil-crevice SkinkNotoscincus ornatus (Broom, 1896) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Nubeoscincus glacialis (Greer, Allison & Cogger, 2005) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Nubeoscincus stellaris (Greer, Allison & Cogger, 2005) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Fiordland SkinkOligosoma acrinasum (Hardy, 1977) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Copper SkinkOligosoma aeneum (Girard, 1858) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Alan's SkinkOligosoma alani (Robb, 1970) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Oligosoma aureocola Knox, Patterson & Chapple, 2023 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Burgan skinkOligosoma burganae Chapple, Bell, Chapple, Miller, Daugherty & Patterson, 2011 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Okuru skinkOligosoma carinacauda Bell & Patterson, 2024 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Green SkinkOligosoma chloronoton (Hardy, 1977) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Marlborough spotted skinkOligosoma elium Melzer, Bell & Patterson, 2017 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Oligosoma fallai (Mccann, 1955) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Grand SkinkOligosoma grande (Gray, 1845) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hardy’s SkinkOligosoma hardyi (Chapple, Patterson, Bell & Daugherty, 2008) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chevron skinkOligosoma homalonotum (Boulenger, 1906) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Oligosoma inconspicuum (Patterson & Daugherty, 1990) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Boulenger’s speckled skinkOligosoma infrapunctatum (Boulenger, 1887) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Barrier skinkOligosoma judgei Patterson & Bell, 2009 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Oligosoma kahurangi Patterson & Hitchmough, 2021 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Oligosoma kakerakau | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Slight SkinkOligosoma levidensum (Chapple, Patterson, Bell & Daugherty, 2008) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands SkinkOligosoma lichenigerum (O'Shaughnessy, 1874) | 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.