Carinascincus greeni (RAWLINSON, 1975)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Alpine Cool-skink, Northern Snow Skink
Synonym	Leiolopisma greeni RAWLINSON 1975: 8 Carinascincus greeni — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 24 Pseudemoia greeni — FRANK & RAMUS 1995 Niveoscincus greeni — HUTCHINSON et al. 1990 Niveoscincus greeni — MELVILLE & SWAIN 2000 Niveoscincus greeni — COGGER 2000: 562 Carinascincus greeni — GREER 2005 (online) Carinascincus greeni — COUPER et al. 2006: 380 Niveoscincus greeni — WILSON & SWAN 2013 Carinascincus greeni — COGGER 2014: 427
Distribution	Australia (Tasmania) Type locality: Mt. Barrow summit (1413 m), Tas., in 41° 23’ S, 147° 25’ E.
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Holotype: NMV D18243
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Comment	Type Species: Leiolopisma greeni Rawlinson 1975 is the type species for the genus Carinascincus WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 24. Leiolopisma greeni Rawlinson 1975 is also the type species of the genus Niveoscincus HUTCHINSON et al. 1990. Etymology: Niveoscincus was named after the Latin nivea, snow, and neo-Latin scincus, a skink, alluding to the cold climates inhabited by these skinks. Habitat: Saxicolous, alpine boulder field, elevation 1400-1500 m. Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species.
Etymology	The genus Carinascincus was named after Carina Clarke, in recognition of her contribution to Scincid biology" (Wells & Wellington, 1985). Carina Jane Clarke (1941-2004) was an Australian biologist who published an early paper on the alpha systematics of the leiolopismid skinks of Australia (Clarke 1965), based on her PhD work.
References	Cogger, H. G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp. - get paper here Cogger, H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp. Couper, P., Covacevich, J., Amey, A. & Baker, A. 2006. The genera of skinks (Family Scincidae) of Australia and its island territories: diversity, distribution and identification. in: Merrick, J.R., Archer, M., Hickey, G.M. & Lee, M.S.Y. (eds.). Evolution and Zoogeography of Australasian Vertebrates. Australian Scientific Publishing, Sydney, pp. 367-384 Greer, Allen E. 1982. A new species of Leiolopisma (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from Western Australia. Rec. Austral. Mus. 34 (12): 549-573 - get paper here 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 - get paper here Hutchinson,M.D. & Schwaner,T.D. 1991. Genetic relationships among the Tasmanian scincid lizards of the genus Niveoscincus. Journal of Herpetology 25 (1): 49-58 - get paper here Melville, Jane; Swain, Roy 2000. Evolutionary relationships between morphology, performance and habitat openness in the lizard genus Niveoscincus (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 70: 667–683. - get paper here Melville,J. & SWAIN,R. 2000. Mitochondrial DNA-sequence based phylogeny and biogeography of the snow skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Niveoscincus) of Tasmania. Herpetologica 56 (2): 196-208 - get paper here Rawlinson,P.A. 1975. Two new lizard species from the genus Leiolopisma (Scincidae: Lygosominae) in south-eastern Australia and Tasmania. Mem. Natl. Mus. Victoria 36: 1-16 - get paper here Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/scincidae.pdf http://www.dpiwe.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/WebPages/BHAN-55K7HM?open http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Niveoscincus/greeni Google images

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