{{Short description|Genus of lizards}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Land Mullet 6.jpg | image_caption = | taxon = Bellatorias | authority = [[Richard W. Wells|Wells]] & [[species:Cliff Ross Wellington|Wellington]], 1984 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 3 species, see text | synonyms = }}
'''''Bellatorias''''' is a [[genus]] of [[skink]]s, [[lizard]]s in the [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] [[Scincidae]]. Species in the genus are native to [[Australia]] and [[Papua New Guinea]]. All of the species were previously placed in the genus ''[[Egernia]]''.
==Species== The following three [[species]], listed alphabetically by [[Specific name (zoology)|specific name]], are recognized as being valid:<ref name=RDB>{{NRDB genus|genus=Bellatorias|accessdate=31 August 2018}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Name !! Distribution |- |[[File:Major Skink (Egernia frerei) (9951680974).jpg|120px]] ||''[[Bellatorias frerei]]'' <small>([[Albert Günther|Günther]], 1897)</small> – Major skink || Papua New Guinea and Australia ([[Queensland]] and [[New South Wales]]) |- |[[File:Lizard Albany.jpg|120px]] ||''[[Bellatorias major]]'' <small>([[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1845)</small> – land mullet ||Australia (Queensland and New South Wales) |- | ||''[[Bellatorias obiri]]'' <small>([[Richard W. Wells|Wells]] & [[species:Cliff Ross Wellington|Wellington]], 1985)</small> – Arnhem Land Gorges skink, Arnhem Land egernia ||Australia ([[Northern Territory]]) |- |}
''[[Nota bene]]'': A [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial authority]] in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Bellatorias''.
==References== {{Wikispecies}} {{Reflist}}
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