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 Tropidoscincus Biodiversity of the family Scincidae Genus Tropidoscincus Whip-tailed Skinks Peitschenschwanzskinke Piskehaleskinker 1873 Tropidoscincus Bocage (type species: Tropidoscincus aubrianus Bocage 1873) 1879 Sauroscincus Peters (type species: Sauroscincus braconnieri Peters 1879; syn. Sadlier 1987) Contents: 3 species, all of which are endemic. Endemism: 0% 100% Remarks: Previously included in Lygosoma. Distribution: New Caledonia (Grande Terre, Isle of Pines). Tropidoscincus aubrianus Pale Whip-tailed Skink, (Aubry's Whip-tailed Skink) Heller Peitschenschwanzskink Lys Piskehaleskink 1873 Tropidoscincus aubrianus Bocage Lampropholis aubrianus Mittleman 1952 Tropidoscincus aubrianus Sadlier 1987 1879 Sauroscincus braconnieri Peters (Sadlier 1987) Distribution: New Caledonia (Grande Terre, Isle of Pines). Tropidoscincus boreus Northern Whip-tailed Skink Nördlicher Peitschenschwanzskink Nordlig Piskehaleskink 1987 Tropidoscincus variabilis Sadlier [not Tropidolopisma variabilis Bavay 1869] 2000 Tropidoscincus boreus Sadlier & Bauer in Bauer & Sadlier Remarks: Previously referred to as T. variabilis (Sadlier 1987). Distribution: New Caledonia (Grande Terre). Tropidoscincus variabilis Southern Whip-tailed Skink Südlicher Peitschenschwanzskink Sydlig Piskehaleskink 1869 Tropidolopisma variabilis Bavay Lygosoma variable [sic] Smith 1937 Lampropholis variabilis Mittleman 1952 Leiolopisma variabilis Greer 1974 Tropidoscincus variabilis Sadlier 1987 1908 Lygosoma röhssii Andersson (Bauer & Sadlier 2000) Tropidoscincus rohssii Sadlier 1987 Distribution: New Caledonia (Grande Terre).