| Glaphyromorphus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Sphenomorphinae |
| Genus: | Glaphyromorphus Wells & Wellington, 1984 |
Glaphyromorphus is a genus of lizards in the skink family (Scincidae).
Geographic range
Species in the genus Glaphyromorphus are found in Australia and New Guinea.
Species
The following 12 species are recognized:
- Glaphyromorphus arnhemicus (Storr, 1967)
- Glaphyromorphus clandestinus Hoskin & Couper, 2004 – Mount Elliot mulch-skink
- Glaphyromorphus cracens (Greer, 1985) – slender mulch-skink
- Glaphyromorphus crassicauda (A.M.C. Duméril & A.H.A. Duméril, 1851) – Cape York mulch-skink
- Glaphyromorphus darwiniensis (Storr, 1967) – Darwin's ground skink, northern mulch-skink
- Glaphyromorphus fuscicaudis (Greer, 1979) – brown-tailed bar-lipped skink, grey-tailed skink
- Glaphyromorphus mjobergi (Lönnberg & Andersson, 1915) – Atherton Tableland skink
- Glaphyromorphus nigricaudis (Macleay, 1877) – black-tailed bar-lipped skink
- Glaphyromorphus nyanchupinta Hoskin & Couper, 2014 – McIlwraith bar-lipped skink
- Glaphyromorphus othelarrni Hoskin & Couper, 2014 – Cape Melville bar-lipped skink
- Glaphyromorphus pumilus (Boulenger, 1887) – dwarf mulch-skink
- Glaphyromorphus punctulatus (W. Peters, 1871) – fine-spotted mulch-skink
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Glaphyromorphus.
References
- ^ "Glaphyromorphus ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de.
- "Glaphyromorphus ". Wikispecies. species.wikimedia.org.
- ^ Genus Glaphyromorphus at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
- Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
- Wells RW, Wellington CR (1984) ("1983"). "A Synopsis of the Class Reptilia in Australia". Australian Journal of Herpetology 1 (3-4): 73–129. (Glaphyromorphus, new genus, p. 95).
- Wilson, Steve; Swan, Gerry (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. ISBN 978-1921517280.
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