# Scincus

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Genus of lizards

Scincus Scincus scincus, common skink or common sandfish Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Family: Scincidae Subfamily: Scincinae Genus: Scincus Laurenti, 1768 Species Five, see text.

***Scincus*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [skinks](/source/Skink), [lizards](/source/Lizards) in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) Scincidae. The genus contains four or five species, all of which are typical desert inhabitants, living in sandy and dune-like areas with a hot and dry climate. Species in the genus *Scincus* can be found from [Arabia](/source/Arabia) to the [Sahara desert](/source/Sahara_desert).

## Taxonomy

*Scincus* is the [type](/source/Type_(biology)) genus of the [subfamily](/source/Subfamily) [Scincinae](/source/Scincinae). As the subfamily Scincinae appears to be [paraphyletic](/source/Paraphyletic) and is in need of revision, it is as yet undetermined which skink genera are closely enough related to *Scincus* to be retained in the Scincinae. (Austin & Arnold 2006).

## Species

The genus *Scincus* contains five species which are recognized as being valid.[1]

Image Species Common name Scincus albifasciatus Boulenger, 1890 White-banded sandfish Scincus conirostris (Blanford, 1881) Iranian sandfish Scincus hemprichii Wiegmann, 1837 Hemprich's sandfish Scincus mitranus Anderson, 1871 Eastern sandfish Scincus scincus (Linnaeus, 1758) Common sandfish

*[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 *Scincus*.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** "*Scincus* ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

## Further reading

- Austin, J.J. & [Arnold, E.N.](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Nicholas_Arnold) (2006). "Using ancient and recent DNA to explore relationships of extinct and endangered *Leiolopisma* skinks (Reptilia: Scincidae) in the Mascarene islands". *Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution* **39** (2): 503–511. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1016/j.ympev.2005.12.011](https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.ympev.2005.12.011) (HTML abstract).

Taxon identifiers Scincus Wikidata: Q1758237 Wikispecies: Scincus BOLD: 169311 CoL: CF4KN EoL: 34807 GBIF: 2463587 iNaturalist: 37638 ITIS: 1181685 NCBI: 155316 Open Tree of Life: 228754

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