Lipinia

Lipinia
Lipinia pulchella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Subfamily:	Sphenomorphinae
Genus:	Lipinia Gray, 1845
Species
28, see text.

Lipinia is a genus of skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae. Species in the genus Lipinia are commonly called lipinias.

Taxonomy

The genus Lipinia belongs to the Sphenomorphus group of genera in which Lipinia has a rather basal position (Austin & Arnold 2006).

Species

The following species are recognized as being valid.[1]

• Lipinia auriculata (Taylor, 1917) – Taylor's lipinia
• Lipinia cheesmanae (Parker, 1940) – Cheesman's lipinia,[2] Cheesman's moth skink
• Lipinia inconspicua (Müller, 1894) – hidden ground skink
• Lipinia inexpectata Das & C. Austin, 2007
• Lipinia infralineolata (A. Günther, 1873)
• Lipinia leptosoma (W. Brown & Fehlmann, 1958) – slender lipinia, Pandanus skink
• Lipinia longiceps (Boulenger, 1895) – long lipinia
• Lipinia macrotympanum (Stoliczka, 1873) – big-eared lipinia
• Lipinia miangensis (F. Werner, 1910) – Werner's lipinia
• Lipinia microcerca (Boettger, 1901) – banded lipinia, Sipora striped skink, common striped skink
• Lipinia nitens (W. Peters, 1871)
• Lipinia occidentalis R. Günther, 2000
• Lipinia pulchella Gray, 1845 – yellow-striped slender tree skink, beautiful lipinia
• Lipinia quadrivittata (W. Peters, 1867) – four-striped lipinia, black-striped slender tree skink
• Lipinia rabori (W. Brown & Alcala, 1956) – Rabor's lipinia, black slender tree skink
• Lipinia relicta (Vinciguerra, 1892) – Vinciguerra's lipinia
• Lipinia rouxi (Hediger, 1934) – Roux's lipinia
• Lipinia sekayuensis Grismer et al., 2014 – Sekayu striped skink
• Lipinia semperi (W. Peters, 1867) – Semper's lipinia
• Lipinia septentrionalis R. Günther, 2000
• Lipinia subvittata (A. Günther, 1873) – striped lipinia
• Lipinia surda Boulenger, 1900 – Malaysian striped skink
• Lipinia trivittata Poyarkov, Geissler, Gorin, Dunayev, Hartmann & Suwannapoom, 2019
• Lipinia vassilievi Poyarkov, Geissler, Gorin, Dunayev, Hartmann & Suwannapoom, 2019
• Lipinia venemai Brongersma, 1953 – Brongersma's lipinia
• Lipinia vittigera (Boulenger, 1894) – banded lipinia, Sipora striped skink, common striped skink
• Lipinia vulcania Girard, 1858 – vulcan lipinia
• Lipinia zamboangensis (W. Brown & Alcala, 1963) – Zamboang lipinia, rusty tree skink

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Lipinia.

References

1. Genus Lipinia at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Lipinia cheesmanae, p. 52).

Further reading

• Gray, J.E. (1845). Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxviii + 289 pp. (Lipinia, new genus, p. 84).

External links

• Austin, J.J. & Arnold, E.N. (2006). Using ancient and recent DNA to explore relationships of extinct and endangered Leiolopisma skinks (Reptilia: Scincidae) in the Mascarene islands. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39 (2): 503–511. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.12.011 (HTML abstract)