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{{Short description|Genus of lizards}}
{{other uses of|Delmas}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image             = Striped legless lizard.jpg
| image_caption     = [[Striped legless lizard]] (''Delma impar'')
| taxon             = Delma
| authority         = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1831<ref>"''Delma'' ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). www.itis.gov.</ref><ref>"''Delma'' ". ''Dahms Tierleben''. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Gekkota/Pygopodidae.</ref> 
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision       = 22 recognized species, see article.
| range_map         = Delma distribution.svg
| range_map_caption =
}}

'''''Delma''''' is a [[genus]] of [[lizard]]s in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Pygopodidae]]. The genus ''Delma'' contains 22 valid described [[species]], all of which are [[Endemism|endemic]] to [[Australia]].

==Species==
Recognized species of ''Delma'' according to the [http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/ Reptile Database]:
*''[[Delma australis]]'' <small>[[Arnold G. Kluge|Kluge]], 1974</small> – marble-faced delma
*''[[Delma borea]]'' <small>Kluge, 1974</small> – rusty-topped delma
*''[[Delma butleri]]'' <small>[[Glen Milton Storr|Storr]], 1987</small> – Butler's legless lizard, Butler's scalyfoot, spinifex snake-lizard, unbanded delma
*''[[Delma concinna]]'' <small>(Kluge, 1974)</small> – javelin lizard
*''[[Delma desmosa]]'' <small>[[species:Brad Maryan|Maryan]], [[species:Ken Aplin|Aplin]] & [[species:Mark Adams (herpetologist)|Adams]], 2007</small> – desert delma
*''[[Delma elegans]]'' <small>Kluge, 1974</small> – Pilbara delma
*''[[Delma fraseri]]'' <small>[[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1831</small> – Fraser's delma, Fraser's scalyfoot
*''[[Delma grayii]]'' <small>[[Andrew Smith (zoologist)|A. Smith]], 1849</small> – side-barred delma, Gray's legless lizard
*''[[Delma hebesa]]'' <small>Maryan, [[species:Ian G. Brennan|Brennan]], Adams & Aplin, 2015</small> – heath delma
*''[[Delma impar]]'' <small>([[Johann Gustav Fischer|Fischer]], 1882)</small> – striped legless lizard
*''[[Delma inornata]]'' <small>Kluge, 1974</small> – patternless delma, olive legless lizard, olive snake-lizard
*''[[Delma labialis]]'' <small>[[species:Glenn Michael Shea|Shea]], 1987</small> – striped-tailed delma, single-striped delma
*''[[Delma mitella]]'' <small>Shea, 1987</small> – Atherton delma
*''[[Delma molleri]]'' <small>[[Christian Frederik Lütken|Lütken]], 1863</small> – Gulfs delma, Adelaide delma
*''[[Delma nasuta]]'' <small>Kluge, 1974</small> – sharp-snouted delma, sharp-snouted legless lizard
*''[[Delma pax]]'' <small>Kluge, 1974</small> – peace delma
*''[[Delma petersoni]]'' <small>Shea, 1991</small> – painted delma
*''[[Delma plebeia]]'' <small>[[Charles Walter De Vis|De Vis]], 1888</small> – leaden delma
*''[[Delma tealei]]'' <small>Maryan, Aplin & Adams, 2007</small> – [[North West Cape]] delma, Teale's delma
*''[[Delma tincta]]'' <small>De Vis, 1888</small> – excitable delma
*''[[Delma torquata]]'' <small>Kluge, 1974</small> – collared delma, adorned delma
*''[[Delma vescolineata]]'' <small>[[species:Stephen Mahony|Mahony]], [[species:Timothy P. Cutajar|Cutajar]] & [[species:Jodi J.L. Rowley|Rowley]], 2022</small> - Hunter Valley delma

''[[Nota bene]]'': A [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial authority]] in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Delma''.

==References==
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==Further reading==
*[[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger GA]] (1885). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. ... Pygopodidæ ...'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I-XXXII. (Genus ''Delma'', p.&nbsp;243).
*[[John Edward Gray|Gray JE]] (1831). "Description of a new Genus of Ophisaurean Animal, discovered by the late James Hunter, Esq., in New Holland". ''Zoological Miscellany'' '''1''':14. (''Delma'', new genus).

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