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    Species Accepted

    Cryptoblepharus egeriae (Boulenger, 1889)

    Blue-tailed Shining-skink

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      7 results
      Blue-tailed Shining-skink English
      Blue-tailed Snake-eyed Skink English
      Christmas Island Blue-tailed Shinning-skink English
      Christmas Island-brilleskink Danish
      Scinco marittimo coda blu Italian
      Weihnachtsinsel-Blauschwanzskink German
      Островной скрытоглаз Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      16 results
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      Greer, A. E. (1974). The generic relationships of the scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 1-67.
      Schwarz, E. (2018). Christmas Island – Arterhaltung auf Australisch. Reptilia 23 (134): 72-80.
      Couper, P., Covacevich, J., Amey, A., & Baker, A. (2006). The genera of skinks (Family Scincidae) of Australia and its island territories: diversity, distribution and identification. in: Merrick, J.R., Archer, M., Hickey, G.M. & Lee, M.S.Y. (eds.). Evolution and Zoogeography of Australasian Vertebrates. Australian Scientific Publishing, Sydney, Pp. 367-384.
      Gibson-Hill, C. A. (1947). The terrestrial reptiles [of the Christmas Islands]. Bull. Raffles Mus. No 18: 81-86.
      Emery, J. P., Hollanders, M., Valentine, L., Tiernan, B., Retallick, K., Cogger, H., ... & Mitchell, N. J. (2024). Evaluation of trial reintroductions of two extinct in the wild reptile species on Christmas Island. Animal Conservation.
      Horner, P. (2007). Systematics of the snake-eyed skinks, Cryptoblepharus Wiegmann (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) - an Australian based review. The Beagle Supplement 3: 21-198.
      Emery, J. P., Valentine, L. E., Hitchen, Y., & Mitchell, N. (2020). Survival of an Extinct in the Wild skink from Christmas Island is reduced by an invasive centipede: implications for future reintroductions. Biological Invasions, 1-12.
      Oliver PM, Blom MPK, Cogger HG, Fisher RN, Richmond JQ, Woinarski JCZ. (2018). Insular biogeographic origins and high phylogenetic distinctiveness for a recently depleted lizard fauna from Christmas Island, Australia. Biol. Lett. 14: 20170696.
      Dodge T, Farquharson K, Ford C, et al. (2022). Genomes of two Extinct-in-the-Wild reptiles from Christmas Island reveal distinct evolutionary histories and conservation insights. Authorea Preprints; 2022.

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