Kingdom Animalia Family Scincidae Genus Gnypetoscincus Rank Species | Class Reptilia Subfamily Lygosominae Phylum Chordata Order Scaled reptiles | |
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Scientific name Gnypetoscincus queenslandiae Similar Glaphyromorphus, Eulamprus, Scaled reptiles, Anomalopus, Saproscincus | ||
Gnypetoscincus is a monotypic genus of skinks (family Scincidae). It contains a single species, the prickly skink, or prickly forest skink, (Gnypetoscincus queenslandiae).
These skinks have rough, keeled scales, unlike the skin of most small skinks which tends to be smooth. They are found only in tropical north Queensland.
It belongs to a clade in the Sphenomorphus group which contains such genera as Ctenotus and Anomalopus. Even closer to the Prickly Skink seems the genus Eulamprus.(Austin & Arnold 2006)
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