Lygosominae is the largest subfamily of in the family Scincidae. The subfamily can be divided into a number of genus groups. If the rarely used taxonomic rank of infrafamily is employed, the genus groups would be designated as such, but such a move would require a formal description according to the ICZN standards.
Genera
Several Lygosominae genera were notorious "
wastebin taxa" in the past, with scientists assigning more or less closely related
species to them in a haphazard fashion and without verifying that the new species were close relatives of the genera's
type species. What was once placed in
Lygosoma, for example, is now divided among some 15 genera, not all in this subfamily. Similarly,
Mabuya and
Sphenomorphus are having species moved elsewhere.
Now placed elsewhere
- Egernia group
- now Subfamily Egerniinae
- Eugongylus group
- now Subfamily Eugongylinae
- Mabuya group
- now Subfamily Mabuyinae
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Chioninia – Cape Verde mabuyas (formerly in Mabuya)
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Dasia — Southeast Asian tree skinks, including Apterygodon (now considered to be part of Dasia)
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Eumecia — Central African elongated skinks
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Eutropis – Asian (formerly in Mabuya)
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Heremites — Mediterranean (North Africa and Middle Eastern species)
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Mabuya – American mabuyas
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Toenayar — composed of a single species in India/Indochina
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Trachylepis – Afro-Malagasy mabuyas (formerly in Mabuya)
- Sphenomorphus group
- now in subfamily Sphenomorphinae
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[[Incertae sedis and obsolete genera
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