Home - Taxonomy - Geography - Biodiversity - Literature - Purchase RepFocus Recent updates Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk). Latest update: December 31st, 2022. Taxonomy of the family Scincidae Bibliography of the genus Tachygyia Biodiversity of the family Scincidae Genus Tachygyia (extinct) Tonga Ground Skink Tonga-Riesenskink Tonga-kæmpeskink 1843 Liosoma Fitzinger [not Liosoma Brandt 1834 (Echinodermata)] (type species: Eumeces microlepis Dumeril & Bibron 1839; syn. Greer 1974) 1952 Tachygyia Mittleman [substitute name for Liosoma Fitzinger 1843] 1974 Tachygia Greer [lapsus] Contents: 1 extinct species, which was endemic. Endemism: 0% 100% Remarks: Regarded as a synonym of Eugongylus by Böhme (1976). Distribution: As for the single species. Tachygyia microlepis Tonga Ground Skink, Small-scaled Giant Skink Tonga-Riesenskink Tonga-kæmpeskink 1839 Eumeces microlepis Dumeril & Bibron Riopa microlepis Smith 1937 Tachygyia microlepis Mittleman 1952 Eugongylus microlepis Böhme 1976 Remarks: Presumably extinct (Zug, Ineich, Pregill & Hamilton 2012). Distribution: Tonga (½Tongatapu).