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 |
|---|---|---|
| Scelotes poensis Bocage, 1895 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Striped Dwarf Burrowing SkinkScelotes sexlineatus (Harlan, 1824) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Uluguru fossorial skinkScelotes uluguruensis Barbour & Loveridge, 1928 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coastal Dwarf Burrowing SkinkScelotes vestigifer Broadley, 1994 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Huulien Ground SkinkScincella apraefrontalis Nguyen, Nguyen, Böhme & Ziegler, 2010 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ground SkinkScincella assata (Cope, 1864) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Golden Ground SkinkScincella balluca Bragin, Zenin, Le, Nguyen, Nguyen, Bobrov & Poyarkov, 2025 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bara ground skinkScincella baraensis Nguyen, Nguyen, Nguyen & Murphy, 2020 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Barbour's Ground SkinkScincella barbouri (Stejneger, 1925) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Boettger's Ground SkinkScincella boettgeri (Van Denburgh, 1912) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Horsehead Ground SkinkScincella caudaequinae (Smith, 1951) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chengdu ground skinkScincella chengduensis Jia, Gao, Wu, Wang, Liu, Liu, Jiang, Jiang, Ren & Li, 2025 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Brown Forest SkinkScincella cherriei (Cope, 1893) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Darevsky’s Ground SkinkScincella darevskii Nguyen, Ananjeva, Orlov, Rybaltovsky & Böhme, 2010 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scincella devorator (Darevsky, Orlov & Cuc, 2004) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Doria's Ground SkinkScincella doriae (Boulenger, 1887) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Fansipan ground skinkScincella fansipanensis Okabe, Motokawa, Koizumi, Nguyen, Nguyen & Bui, 2024 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Forbe’s Forest Ground SkinkScincella forbesorum (Taylor, 1937) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Van Denburgh's Ground SkinkScincella formosensis (Van Denburgh, 1912) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cope’s Forest Ground SkinkScincella gemmingeri (Cope, 1864) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heishui ground skinkScincella heishuiensis Liu, PU, Tan, Chen, Lyu, Shu, Wu, Dong & Guo, 2026 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scincella huanrenensis Zhao & Huang, 1982 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Stuart’s Forest SkinkScincella incerta (Stuart, 1940) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Jinchuan ground skinkScincella jinchuanensis Liu, PU, Tan, Chen, Cai, Lyu, Shu, WU & Guo, 2026 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scincella kikaapoa García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez & Nieto-Montes de Oca, 2010 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ground SkinkScincella lateralis (Say, 1822) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Liangshan’s ground skink”Scincella liangshanensis Jia, Gao, Wu, Ren, Jiang & Wu, 2024 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Large- eared ground skinkScincella macrotis (Steindachner, 1867) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maerkang ground skinkScincella maerkangensis Liu, PU, Tan, Chen, Cai, Lyu, Shu, WU & Guo, 2026 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black Ground SkinkScincella melanosticta (Boulenger, 1888) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Modest Ground SkinkScincella modesta (Günther, 1864) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scincella montana Valdenegro-Brito, Esaú, DE LA Vega-Pérez & García-Vázquez, 2025 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scincella monticola (Schmidt, 1925) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scincella nigrofasciata Neang, Chan & Poyarkov, 2018 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scincella ochracea (Bourret, 1937) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scincella potanini (Günther, 1896) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scincella przewalskii (Bedriaga, 1912) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Burma Smooth SkinkScincella punctatolineata (Boulenger, 1893) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Double subdigital-pads skinkScincella rara (Darevsky & Orlov, 1997) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Reeves’ Smooth SkinkScincella reevesii (Gray, 1839) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Red-tailed ground skinkScincella rufocaudata (Darevsky & Nguyen Van Sang, 1983) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scincella rupicola (Smith, 1916) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scincella schmidti (Barbour, 1927) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Taylor’s Ground SkinkScincella silvicola (Taylor, 1937) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Narrow-striped Ground SkinkScincella tenuistriata Xu, Gong, Nguyen, Deng, Bragin, Weng, Zhang, Poyarkov & Peng, 2025 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Truong’s Smooth Skink”Scincella truongi Pham, Ziegler, Pham, Hoang, Ngo & Le, 2025 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scincella tsinlingensis (Hu & Zhao, 1966) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tsushima smooth skinkScincella vandenburghi (Schmidt, 1927) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scincella victoriana (Shreve, 1940) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scincella vuquangensis Pham, Nguyen, Le, Nguyen, Nguyen, Hoang & Nguyen, 2026 | 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.