Carlia munda (DE VIS, 1885)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Shaded-litter Rainbow-skink
Synonym	Heteropus mundus DE VIS 1885 Mocoa melanopogon GRAY 1845: 82 Lygosoma (Leiolopisma) mundum — SMITH 1937: 225 Carlia foliorum — COGGER 1983: 138 Carlia springelli WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 24 Carlia munda — INGRAM & COVACEVICH 1989 Carlia munda — COGGER 2000: 395 Carlia munda — DOLMAN & HUGALL 2008
Distribution	Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia) Type locality: Warro, Port Curtis, Qld. Neotype locality: State Fores, foothills of Mt Larcom, Qld.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Neotype: QM J15654, collected J. Covacevich & T. Tebble, 6.ix.1968. Designation by Ingram & Covacevich (1989). Syntypes: QM (2 specimens) presumed lost, see Covacevich, J. (1971). Holotype: BMNH 1946.8.16.42, male [Mocoa melanopogon]
Diagnosis
Comment	Synonymy: Mocoa melanopogon GRAY 1845 became a junior homonym of Lygosoma melanopogon DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839 when BOULENGER (1887) included all lygosomine species in the genus Lygosoma. The “code” states that “a secondary homonym replaced prior to 1961 is permanently invalid unless the substitute is not in use and the relevant taxa are no longer congeneric” (after ZUG 2004). Synonymy partly following INGRAM & COVACEVICH 1989.
Etymology	Presumably named after the Latin mundus (clean, neat or nice). (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024)
References	Afonso Silva, A. C. 2018. Evolutionary history of sympatric Rainbow skinks from the Australian Monsoonal Tropics. PhD Thesis, University of Lisbon, Portugal 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 Covacevich, J. 1971. Amphibian and reptile type specimens in the Queensland Museum. [type catalogue] Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 49-68 - get paper here De Vis, C. W. 1885. A conspect of the genus Heteropus. Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland 1: 166-173 - get paper here Dolman, Gaynor & Andrew F. Hugall 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 - get paper here Edwards, Scott V.; Sally Potter, C. Jonathan Schmitt, Jason G. Bragg, and Craig Moritz 2016. Reticulation, divergence, and the phylogeography–phylogenetics continuum. PNAS 2016 113 (29) 8025-8032; doi:10.1073/pnas.1601066113 - get paper here Greer, A.E. 1974. The generic relationships of the scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 1-67. - get paper here Greer, A.E. 1975. Notes on the systematics of the genus Carlia (Lacertilia: Scincidae). I. Carlia melanopogon Gray 1845. Herpetologica 31 (1): 70-75 - get paper here Ingram G; Covacevich J 1989. Revision of the genus Carlia (Reptilia, Scincidae) in Australia with comments on Carlia bicarinata of New Guinea. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 27 (2): 443-490 - get paper here Smith, M.A. 1937. A review of the genus Lygosoma (Scincidae: Reptilia) and its allies. Records of the Indian Museum 39 (3): 213-234 Storr, G. M.; L. A. Smith, and R. E. Johnstone 1999. Lizards of Western Australia. I. Skinks. Revised Edition. Western Australian Museum Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp. Zug,G. R. 2004. Systematics of the Carlia “fusca” lizards (Squamata: Scincidae) of New Guinea and Nearby Islands. Bishop Mus. Bull. Zool. 5: 1-83
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/scincidae.pdf http://www.lacerta.de/AS/Taxon.php?Genus=50&Species=269 http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Carlia/munda http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0E8B717D-FFBA-406D-ABB9… http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:D25C0B90-783A-4057-9D68… Google images

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