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Lissolepis
Sign in to saveLissolepis is a genus of mid-sized skinks (adult snout-vent length 100–130 mm) with a bulky angular body and small eyes. 20–28 rows of midbody scales; dorsal scales smooth. The nasal scale has a postnarial groove; the subocular scale row is complete. Eyelids similar in colour to the adjacent scales. They were previously placed in the genus Egernia.
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Lissolepis is a genus of mid-sized skinks (adult snout-vent length 100–130 mm) with a bulky angular body and small eyes. 20–28 rows of midbody scales; dorsal scales smooth. The nasal scale has a postnarial groove; the subocular scale row is complete. Eyelids similar in colour to the adjacent scales. They were previously placed in the genus Egernia.
==Species== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Name !! Distribution |- |120px ||Lissolepis coventryi (Storr, 1978) – eastern mourning skink||South Australia, Victoria, and possibly New South Wales. |- | || Lissolepis luctuosa (W. Peters, 1866) – western mourning skink, western glossy swamp skink|| Western Australia |- |}
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