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{{Redirect|four-fingered skink|the four-fingered skink species in Sepsina|Sepsina tetradactyla}}
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| name          = ''Carlia''
| image         = Carlia rubrigularis.jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Carlia rubrigularis]]''
| taxon         = Carlia
| authority     = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1845<ref name=ITIS>{{ITIS|id=173972 |taxon=''Carlia'' Gray, 1845 |accessdate=20 July 2020}}</ref>
}}

'''''Carlia''''' is a [[genus]] of [[skink]]s, commonly known as '''four-fingered skinks''' or '''rainbow skinks''', in the [[subfamily]] [[Eugongylinae]].<ref>{{BioRef|reptileDB| taxon=Eugongylinae|access-date=10 October 2019}}</ref> Before being placed in this new subfamily, ''Carlia'' was recovered in a [[clade]] with the [[Genus|genera]] ''[[Niveoscincus]]'', ''[[Lampropholis]]'', and others of the ''[[Eugongylus]]'' group within [[Lygosominae]].<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Austin JJ, Arnold EN |author-link=species:Jeremy Austin |author2-link=Edwin Nicholas Arnold |year=2006 |title=Using ancient and recent DNA to explore relationships of extinct and endangered ''Leiolopisma'' skinks (Reptilia: Scincidae) in the Mascarene islands |journal=[[Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution]] |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=503–511 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2005.12.011 |pmid=16473026}}</ref>

==Species==
The genus ''Carlia'' contains the following species ([[Nota bene|n.b.]], a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Carlia''):<ref name=RDB>{{NRDB genus |genus=Carlia }}</ref>
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*''[[Carlia aenigma]]'' <small>([[species:George Robert Zug|Zug]], 2004)</small> – enigmatic rainbow skink
*''[[Carlia ailanpalai]]'' <small>(Zug, 2004)</small> – curious skink
*''[[Carlia amax]]'' <small>([[Glen Milton Storr|Storr]], 1974)</small> – bauxite rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia aramia]]'' <small>(Zug, 2004)</small> – Aramia rainbow skink
*''[[Carlia babarensis]]'' <small>([[Felix Kopstein|Kopstein]], 1926)</small>
*''[[Carlia beccarii]]'' <small>([[Wilhelm Peters|W. Peters]] & [[Giacomo Doria|Doria]], 1878)</small>
*''[[Carlia bicarinata]]'' <small>([[William John Macleay|Macleay]], 1877)</small> – rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia bomberai]]'' <small>(Zug & [[species:Allen Allison|Allison]], 2006)</small>
*''[[Carlia caesius]]'' <small>(Zug & Allison, 2006)</small>
*''[[Carlia crypta]]'' <small>[[species:Sonal Singhal|Singhal]], [[species:Conrad J. Hoskin|Hoskin]], [[Patrick J. Couper|Couper]], [[species:Sally Potter|Potter]] & [[species:Craig Moritz|Moritz]], 2018</small>
*''[[Carlia decora]]'' <small>Hoskin & Couper, 2012</small> – elegant rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia diguliensis]]'' <small>(Kopstein, 1926)</small> – Digul River rainbow skink
*''[[Carlia dogare]]'' <small>([[Jeanette Covacevich|Covacevich]] & [[species:Glen Joseph Ingram|Ingram]], 1975)</small> – sandy rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia eothen]]'' <small>(Zug, 2004)</small>
*''[[Carlia fusca]]'' <small>([[André Marie Constant Duméril|A.M.C. Duméril]] & [[Gabriel Bibron|Bibron]], 1839)</small> –  brown four-fingered skink, Indonesian brown skink
*''[[Carlia gracilis]]'' <small>(Storr, 1974)</small> – slender rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia inconnexa]]'' <small>Ingram & Covacevich, 1989</small> – Whitsunday rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia insularis]]'' <small>[[species:Ana Catarina Afonso Silva|Afonso-Silva]], [[species:Natali Santos|Santos]], [[species:Huw A. Ogilvie|Ogilvie]] & Moritz, 2017</small> – Kimberley islands rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia isostriacantha]]'' <small>Afonso-Silva, Santos, Ogilvie & Moritz, 2017</small> – Monsoonal three-keeled rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia jarnoldae]]'' <small>(Covacevich & Ingram, 1975)</small> – lined rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia johnstonei]]'' <small>(Storr, 1974)</small> – rough brown rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia leucotaenia]]'' <small>([[Pieter Bleeker|Bleeker]], 1860)</small>
*''[[Carlia longipes]]'' <small>(Macleay, 1877)</small> – closed-litter rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia luctuosa]]'' <small>(W. Peters & Doria, 1878)</small>
*''[[Carlia munda]]'' <small>([[Charles Walter De Vis|De Vis, 1885]])</small> – shaded-litter rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia mysi]]'' <small>(Zug, 2004)</small> – Mys's rainbow skink
*''[[Carlia nigrauris]]'' <small>(Zug, 2010)</small>
*''[[Carlia pectoralis]]'' <small>(De Vis, 1885)</small> – open-litter rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia peronii]]'' <small>(A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839)</small>
*''[[Carlia pulla]]'' <small>([[Thomas Barbour|T. Barbour]], 1911)</small>
*''[[Carlia quinquecarinata]]'' <small>(Macleay, 1877)</small> – five-keeled rainbow-skink, five-carinated rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia rhomboidalis]]'' <small>(W. Peters, 1869)</small> – blue-throated rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia rostralis]]'' <small>(De Vis, 1885)</small> – black-throated rainbow-skink, hooded rainbow skink
*''[[Carlia rubigo]]'' <small>Hoskin & Couper, 2012</small> – orange-flanked rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia rubrigularis]]'' <small>(Ingram & Covacevich, 1989)</small> – red-throated rainbow-skink, northern red-throated skink
*''[[Carlia rufilatus]]'' <small>(Storr, 1974)</small> – red-sided rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia schmeltzii]]'' <small>(W. Peters, 1867)</small> – robust rainbow-skink, [[Johann Schmeltz|Schmeltz's]] skink
*''[[Carlia sexdentata]]'' <small>(Macleay, 1877)</small> – six-toothed rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia spinauris]]'' <small>(Smith, 1927)</small>
*''[[Carlia storri]]'' <small>(Ingram & Covacevich, 1989)</small> – brown bicarinate rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia sukur]]'' <small>Zug & [[species:Hinrich Kaiser|Kaiser]], 2014</small> – Sukur four-toed skink
*''[[Carlia tetradactyla]]'' <small>([[Arthur O'Shaughnessy|O'Shaughnessy]], 1879)</small> – southern rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia triacantha]]'' <small>([[Francis John Mitchell|Mitchell]], 1953)</small> – [[desert rainbow-skink]]
*''[[Carlia tutela]]'' <small>(Zug, 2004)</small>
*''[[Carlia vivax]]'' <small>(De Vis, 1884)</small> – lively rainbow-skink, tussock rainbow-skink
*''[[Carlia wundalthini]]'' <small>(Hoskin, 2014)</small> – Cape Melville rainbow skink
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==See also==
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*[[Carlina (name)]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*[[species:Gaynor Dolman|Dolman G]], [[species:Andrew F. Hugall|Hugall AF]] (2008). "Combined mitochondrial and nuclear data enhance resolution of a rapid radiation of Australian rainbow skinks (Scincidae: ''Carlia'')". ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' '''49''' (3): 782–794.
*[[John Edward Gray|Gray JE]] (1845). ''Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum.'' London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxviii + 289 pp. (''Carlia'', new genus, p.&nbsp;271).


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