# Bellatorias

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Genus of lizards

Bellatorias Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Family: Scincidae Subfamily: Egerniinae Genus: Bellatorias Wells & Wellington, 1984 Species 3 species, see text

***Bellatorias*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [skinks](/source/Skink), [lizards](/source/Lizard) in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Scincidae](/source/Scincidae). Species in the genus are native to [Australia](/source/Australia) and [Papua New Guinea](/source/Papua_New_Guinea). All of the species were previously placed in the genus *[Egernia](/source/Egernia)*.

## Species

The following three [species](/source/Species), listed alphabetically by [specific name](/source/Specific_name_(zoology)), are recognized as being valid:[1]

Image Name Distribution Bellatorias frerei (Günther, 1897) – Major skink Papua New Guinea and Australia (Queensland and New South Wales) Bellatorias major (Gray, 1845) – land mullet Australia (Queensland and New South Wales) Bellatorias obiri (Wells & Wellington, 1985) – Arnhem Land Gorges skink, Arnhem Land egernia Australia (Northern Territory)

*[Nota bene](/source/Nota_bene)*: A [binomial authority](/source/Binomial_nomenclature) in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than *Bellatorias*.

## References

[Wikispecies](/source/Wikispecies) has information related to ***[Bellatorias](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/Bellatorias)***.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-RDB_1-0)** *[Bellatorias](http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/search.php?submit=Search&genus=Bellatorias)* at the [Reptarium.cz Reptile Database](http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/). Accessed 31 August 2018.

Taxon identifiers Bellatorias Wikidata: Q2419690 Wikispecies: Bellatorias AFD: Bellatorias CoL: 399V EoL: 21636644 GBIF: 4821189 iNaturalist: 86927 IRMNG: 1109782 NCBI: 1041594

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