Genus Lissolepis Peters, 1872

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• Lissolepis Peters, W. 1872. Über neue oder weniger bekannte Saurier. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1872: 774-776 [1873 on title page] [776].

  Type species:

   Cyclodus (Omolepida) luctuosus Peters, 1866 by original designation.

Introduction

Re-instated as a valid genus, following molecular phylogenetic analysis of Egernia (Gardner 2008).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

General References

Cogger, H.G., in Cogger, H.G., Cameron, E.E. & Cogger, H.M. 1983. Amphibia and Reptilia. 313 pp. in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1 vi + 313 pp. [155] (as junior synonym of Egernia)

Gardner, M.G., Hugall, A.F., Donnellan, S.C., Hutchinson, M.N. & Foster, R. 2008. Molecular systematics of social skinks: phylogeny and taxonomy of the Egernia group (Reptilia: Scincidae). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 154: 781-794

History of changes