Genus Glaphyromorphus Wells & Wellington, 1984

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• Glaphyromorphus 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] [95].

  Type species:

   Lygosoma (Lygosoma) punctulatum Peters, 1871 by original designation.
• Mawsoniascincus Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology Supplementary Series 1: 1-61 [Date published September, 1985] [33, 34].

  Type species:

   Lygosoma isolepis Boulenger, 1887 by original designation.
• Opacitascincus Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology Supplementary Series 1: 1-61 [Date published September, 1985] [36].

  Type species:

   Lygosoma crassicaudum Duméril & Bibron, 1851 by original designation.
• Patheticoscincus 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] [101].

  Type species:

   Lygosoma australis Gray, 1839 by original designation.

Introduction

Genus reviewed by Mecke et al. (2009).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP) ; NT, WA: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Mecke, S., Doughty, P. & Donnellan, S.C. 2009. A new species of Eremiascincus (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from the Great Sandy Desert and Pilbara Coast, Western Australia and reassignment of eight species from Glaphyromorphus to Eremiascincus. Zootaxa 2246: 1-20

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