Lygosominae is the largest subfamily of skinks in the family Scincidae. The subfamily can be divided into a number of genus groups. If the rarely used taxonomic rank of infrafamily is employed, the genus groups would be designated as such, but such a move would require a formal description according to the ICZN standards.
Also, several Lygosominae genera were notorious "wastebin taxa" in the past, with scientists assigning more or less closely related species to them in a haphazard fashion and without verifying that the new species were close relatives of the genera's type species. What was once placed in Lygosoma, for example, is now divided among some 15 genera. Similarly, Mabuya and Sphenomorphus are having species moved elsewhere even today. Obsolete genera include Euprepis.
Egernia group
Corucia – Solomon Islands skink
Cyclodomorphus
Egernia – (paraphyletic: including Bellatorias, Liopholis and Lissolepis, which are better regarded as distinct)
Tiliqua – blue-tongued skinks
Eugongylus group
Bassiana (= Acritoscincus) – "cool-skins"
Carlia – four-fingered skinks
Cryptoblepharus – snake-eyed skinks, shining-skinks
Emoia – emoias
Eugongylus – mastiff skinks, short-legged giant skinks
Lampropholis – Indo-Australian ground skinks
Leiolopisma
Niveoscincus – snow skinks, "cool-skins"
Oligosoma
Mabuya group
Chioninia – Cape Verde mabuyas (formerly in Mabuya)
Dasia — Southeast Asian tree skinks, including Apterygodon (now considered to be part of Dasia)
Eumecia — Central African elongated skinks
Eutropis – Asian (formerly in Mabuya)
Heremites — Mediterranean (North Africa and Middle Eastern species)
Mabuya – American mabuyas
Toenayar — composed of a single species in India/Indochina
Trachylepis – Afro-Malagasy mabuyas (formerly in Mabuya)
Sphenomorphus group
Anomalopus – worm-skinks
Ctenotus – comb-eared skinks
Eulamprus – water skinks
Glaphyromorphus
Gnypetoscincus – Prickly Skink
Insulasaurus
Lipinia – lipinias
Otosaurus
Parvoscincus
Pinoyscincus
Scincella – ground skinks
Sphenomorphus – common skinks (paraphyletic)
Tytthoscincus
Undetermined
Eremiascincus
Hemisphaeriodon – pink-tongued skinks
Lamprolepis – tree skinks
Lerista
Lobulia
Lygosoma – writhing skinks
Saproscincus – shade skinks
Tribolonotus – crocodile skinks (Egernia group?)
"Hinulia" elegans, described by Grey in 1838, is unidentified, but may be Eulamprus tenuis.
