Questions on Skink Systematics
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 7:22 pm
Hi Everybody, I'm hoping this is considered an advanced discussion question. I am doing a presentation on blue tongues for my local herp society at the end of the month and I want to make sure to be giving as accurate and up-to-date information as possible. I figured that some of you would be great ones to ask some of my questions I am having a hard time answering.
First, is scincidae still considered to be the largest family of lizards? I was seeing some controversy about the gecko family potentially being bigger...
Second, right now what is the accepted species and subspecies count for blue tongue skinks?
Does anyone have any great literature on this kind of thing? The bluey bible is a little out of date when it comes to all this classification stuff.
So if anyone has some answers and good sources to back it up I would really really appreciate it!
First, is scincidae still considered to be the largest family of lizards? I was seeing some controversy about the gecko family potentially being bigger...
Second, right now what is the accepted species and subspecies count for blue tongue skinks?
Does anyone have any great literature on this kind of thing? The bluey bible is a little out of date when it comes to all this classification stuff.
So if anyone has some answers and good sources to back it up I would really really appreciate it!
