Carinascincus metallicus

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Eugongylinae
Genus: Carinascincus
Species:

• Carinascincus metallicus (O’Shaughnessy, 1874)

Syntypes (7): BMNH 1946.8.7.7–14, collected by Ronald Gunn.

Type locality: “Van Diemn's Land [=Tasmania]”, Australia.

• Mocoa metallica O’Shaughnessy, 1874: 299 [original combination]
• Lygosoma (Leiolopisma) metallicum — Smith, 1937: 225 [subsequent combination]
• Leiolopisma metallicum — Greer, 1974: 17 [subsequent combination]
• Litotescincus metallicum — Wells & Wellington, 1985: 33 [subsequent combination]
• Niveoscincus metallicus — Hutchinson et al. 1990: 544 [subsequent combination]
• Carinascincus metallicus — Couper, Covacevich, Amey & Baker, 2006: 380 [subsequent combination]

• O’Shaughnessy, A.W.E. 1874. Descriptions of new species of Scincidæ in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 4, 13(76): 298–301. DOI: 10.1080/00222937408680864 BHL Reference page. 
• 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. Reference page. 
• Hutchinson, M.N., Donnellan, S.C., Baverstock, P.R., Krieg, M., Simms, S. & Burgin, S. 1990. Immunological relationships and generic revision of the Australian lizards assigned to the genus Leiolopisma (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Australian Journal of Zoology 38(5): 535–554. DOI: 10.1071/ZO9900535 Reference page. 
• Couper, P.J., Covacevich, J.A., Amey, A.P. & Baker, A.M. 2006. The genera of skinks (Family Scincidae) of Australia and its island territories: diversity, distribution and identification. pp. 367–383 in Merrick, J.R., Archer, M., Hickey, G.M. & Lee, M.S.Y. (eds). Evolution and Biogeography of Australasian Vertebrates. Auscipub Pty Ltd.: Sydney. 942 pp. ISBN 0975779001 Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Carinascincus metallicus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 7 July 2018.
• Chapple, D.C, Michael, D., Robertson, P., Clemann, N. & Wapstra, E. 2018. {[IUCN|LC|109480617|Niveoscincus metallicus}}. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T109480617A109480628.