Lygisaurus

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Eugongylinae
Genus:
Species (14): L. absconditus – L. aeratus – L. curtus – L. foliorum – L. laevis – L. macfarlani – L. malleolus – L. novaeguineae – L. parrhasius – L. rimula – L. rococo – L. sesbrauna – L. tanneri – L. zuma

Lygisaurus De Vis, 1884: 77

• Type species: Lygisaurus foliorum De Vis, 1884, by monotypy.

• Protervascincus Wells & Wellington, 1984: 101
  • Type species: Ablepharus burnetti Oudemans, 1894, by original designation.

• De Vis, C.W. 1884. New Queensland lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 1: 77–78. BHL Reference page. 
• Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. [1983] 1984. A synopsis of the class Reptilia in Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology 1(3–4): 73–129. Reference page. 

• Ingram, G. & Covacevich, J. 1988. Revision of the genus Lygisaurus De Vis (Scincidae : Reptilia). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 25(2): 335–354. BHL Reference page. 
• Couper, P.J. 1993. A new species of Lygisaurus de Vis (Reptilia: Scincidae) from mideastern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33(1): 163–166. BHL Reference page. 
• Couper, P.J., Covacevich, J.A. & Lethbridge, P.J. 1994. Carlia parrhasius, a new Queensland skink. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 35(1): 31–33. BHL Reference page. 
• Stuart-Fox, D.M., Huggall, A.F. & Moritz, C. 2002. A molecular phylogeny of rainbow skinks (Scincidae: Carlia): taxonomic and biogeographic implications. Australian Journal of Zoology 50(1): 39–51. DOI: 10.1071/ZO01051 Reference page. 
• Couper, P.J., Wilmer, J.W., Roberts, L., Amey, A,P. & Zug. G.R. 2005. Skinks currently assigned to Carlia aerata (Scincidae: Lygosominae) of north-eastern Queensland: a preliminary study of cryptic diversity and two new species. Australian Journal of Zoology 53(1): 35–49. DOI: 10.1071/ZO04010 Reference page. 
• Dolman, G. & Hugall, A.F. 2008. Combined mitochondrial and nuclear data enhance resolution of a rapid radiation of Australian rainbow skinks (Scincidae: Carlia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49(3): 782–794. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.09.021 Reference page. 
• Bragg, J.G., Potter, S., Afonso Silva, A.C., Hoskin, C.J., Bai, B.Y.H. & Moritz, C. 2018. Phylogenomics of a rapid radiation: the Australian rainbow skinks. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18: 15. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-018-1130-4 Reference page. 
• Probst, T., Frandsen, P.B. & Whiting, A. 2025. Chasing the Rainbow: Decoupled phenotypic and genotypic evolution in New Guinea’s rainbow skinks (Squamata: Scincidae). Zootaxa 5583(2): 309–327. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5583.2.5 Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Lygisaurus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 17 July 2025.