Genus Liopholis Fitzinger, 1843

Museums

Regional Maps

• Liopholis Fitzinger, L.J. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus Primus. Amblyglossae. Vienna : Braümüller et Seidel i-vi, 106 pp. [22].

  Type species:

   Lygosoma moniligera Duméril & Bibron, 1839 (= Scincus whitii Lacépède, 1804) by original designation (= Scincus whitii Lacépède, 1804).
• Flamoscincus Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1984. A synopsis of the class Reptilia in Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology 1(3-4): 73-129 [1983 on title page] [94].

  Type species:

   Egernia kintorei Stirling & Zietz, 1893 by original designation.

Introduction

Re-instated as valid genus, following molecular phylogenetic studies (Gardner et al. 2008)

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Kanmantoo (KAN) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Finke (FIN), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Coolgardie (COO), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Nullarbor (NUL), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN) ; NSW, NT, SA, WA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB) ; NSW, Qld: Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT, Qld, SA, WA: Mount Isa Inlier (MII) ; SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Mallee (MAL) ; WA: Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

General References

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