Emoia is a genus of lizards in the subfamily Eugongylinae of the family Scincidae (skinks). The genus Emoia belongs to a group of genera mainly from the southwestern Pacific-Australian region. These small skinks are commonly known as emoias, emo skinks, and skinks.
Species List of 78 valid Emoia species and their respective authors, geographical ranges, and common names from the Reptile Database:
Species Region Geographical range Common name Emoia adspersa Oceania South Pacific Steindachner's emo skink, Micronesian skink, dark-sided emoia, dark-sided skink, dateline emoia Emoia aenea New Guinea S. New Guinea bronze emo skink Emoia aneityumensis Vanuatu Aneityum Medway's emo skink, Anatom emo skink Emoia arnoensis Micronesia Carolines, Marshalls, Nauru, Micronesia Micronesia black skink Emoia atrocostata widespread Asia littoral whiptail-skink, mangrove skink, littoral skink Emoia aurulenta New Guinea SW PNG Brown's emo skink, golden forest skink Emoia battersbyi New Guinea N. New Guinea Battersby's emo skink Emoia baudini New Guinea, Maluku Bird's Head and nearby islands great bight cool-skink, Baudin's skink Emoia beryllion Rossel Island Rossel Island Emoia bismarckensis New Britain New Britain (Bismarck Archipelago) Emoia boettgeri Micronesia Carolines (e.g. Ponape), Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Lukunor Atoll), Uman District Islands Boettger's emo skink, Micronesia forest skink Emoia bogerti New Guinea Baliem, Papua, Indonesia highlands Bogert's emo skink Emoia brongersmai New Guinea Sibil Valley, upper Digul drainage, Irian Jaya Brongersma's emo skink, Brongersma's forest skink Emoia caeruleocauda Pacific Pacific Pacific bluetail skink Emoia callisticta New Guinea Sorong Emoia campbelli Fiji Viti Levu montane emo skink, Vitilevu Mountain treeskink Emoia coggeri New Guinea Singorakai, northern Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea Cogger's emo skink Emoia concolor Fiji Fiji Islands, Rotuma Island Fiji green emo skink, Viti slender treeskink Emoia cyanogaster Melanesia PNG, Solomons, Vanuatu, Admiralty Teal emo skink Emoia cyanura Pacific Pacific copper-tailed skink Emoia cyclops New Guinea Cyclops Mountains Cyclops emo skink Emoia digul New Guinea Sibil Valley, upper Digul drainage, Irian Jaya Digul emo skink Emoia erronan Vanuatu Futuna Island common emo skink, Erronan treeskink Emoia flavigularis Solomons (Bougainville), Solomons yellow-throated emo skink Emoia guttata New Guinea Morobe Province Allison's emo skink Emoia impar Oceania South Pacific dark-bellied copper-striped skink, azure-tailed skink Emoia irianensis New Guinea Paniai Lakes Irian emo skink Emoia isolata Solomons Solomon Islands (Rennell Island); Bellona Island isolated emo skink Emoia jakati Oceania South Pacific Kopstein's emo skink Emoia jamur New Guinea Gariau area, Jamur Lake, on neck of land south of Geelvink Bay, Irian Jaya Jamur emo skink Emoia kitcheneri Sumba Sumba Emoia klossi New Guinea, Maluku East Indonesia; PNG Kloss's emo skink Emoia kordoana New Guinea, Maluku East Indonesia; PNG Meyer's emo skink Emoia kuekenthali New Guinea, Maluku Maluku, Admiralties Kuekenthal's emo skink Emoia laobaoensis Asia Quang Tri Bourret's emo skink, Laobao mangrove skink Emoia lawesii Oceania Niue, Samoa, Tonga Günther's emo skink, olive small-scaled skink Emoia longicauda widespread East Indonesia; PNG; Queensland shrub whiptail-skink Emoia loveridgei New Guinea Toem, Irian Jaya Loveridge's emo skink Emoia loyaltiensis Loyalty Islands Mare and Lifou islands, Loyalty Islands Roux's emo skink, Loyalty Islands emoia Emoia maculata Solomons Ugi Island; Solomons spotted emo skink, spotted blue-tailed skink Emoia maxima New Guinea New Guinea great emo skink Emoia mivarti New Guinea, Maluku Admiralty Islands, Waigeo and N Irian Jaya (Indonesia), Bismarck Archipelago Boulenger's emo skink, Admiralty five-striped skink Emoia mokolahi Tonga Tonga Islands (Vava‘u) Emoia mokosariniveikau Fiji Vanua Levu Vanualevu slender treeskink Emoia montana New Guinea Papua New Guinea (Baiyer River drainage, Western Highlands Province) mountain emo skink Emoia nativitatis Christmas Islands Christmas Islands Christmas Island forest skink, Christmas Island whiptail skink Emoia nigra Melanesia Bismarcks; Solomons; Vanuatu black emo skink Emoia nigromarginata Vanuatu Vanuatu black-bordered emo skink, Vanuatu silver vineskink Emoia obscura New Guinea New Guinea obscure emo skink Emoia oribata New Guinea New Guinea Emoia oriva Fiji Fiji Islands (Rotuma) Emoia pallidiceps New Guinea New Guinea; Bismarcks De Vis's emo skink Emoia paniai New Guinea Paniai, Wissel Lakes, Irian Jaya coastal emo skink Emoia parkeri Fiji Fiji Islands (Kadavu, Viti Levu, Ovalau, Taveuni) Parker's emo skink, Viti copper-headed skink Emoia physicae New Guinea Papua New Guinea; Morobe and Gulf slender emo skink Emoia physicina New Guinea S. New Guinea five-toed emo skink, small keel-scaled skink Emoia ponapea Micronesia Caroline Islands, Ponape (Pacific), Micronesia Kiester's emo skink, Ponape skink Emoia popei New Guinea Marienberg; PNG Pope's emo skink Emoia pseudocyanura Solomons (Bougainville), Solomon Islands false bluetail emo skink Emoia pseudopallidiceps New Guinea S. New Guinea arboreal emo skink Emoia reimschisseli Maluku Moratai Island, Moluccas Reimschisel's emo skink Emoia rennellensis Solomons Solomons (Rennell Island) bright emo skink, Rennell blue-tailed skink Emoia ruficauda ISEA Philippines (Mindanao), Indonesia (Sulawesi ?) redtail emo skink Emoia rufilabialis Solomons (Santa Cruz Islands) red-lipped emo skink Emoia samoensis – Samoan skink Oceania Western and American Samoa, Cook Island Samoa skink Emoia sanfordi Vanuatu Vanuatu Sanford's emo skink, Sanford's tree skink Emoia schmidti Solomons Solomon Islands (New Georgia Island) Schmidt's emo skink Emoia similis Indonesia Lesser Sundas Dunn's emo skink Emoia slevini Micronesia Mariana Islands Slevin's emo skink,Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Emoia slevini, p. 245). Mariana skink Emoia sorex Maluku Maluku Sorex emo skink Emoia submetallica New Guinea PNG Madeay's emo skink Emoia taumakoensis Solomons Santz Cruz; Taumako, Duff Islands, Solomon Islands. Taurnako emo skink Emoia tetrataenia New Guinea New Guinea four-striped emo skink Emoia tongana Tonga, Samoa Western Samoa and some northern Tongan islands (Futuna, Niuafo’ou, Niuatoputapu, Va’vau, Ha’apai) Polynesia slender treeskink Emoia tropidolepis New Guinea S. New Guinea forest emo skink Emoia trossula Oceania Fiji Islands, Rotuma Island, Cook Islands, Tonga Fiji barred treeskink, Gibbons's emo skink, Viti barred treeskink Emoia tuitarere Oceania Rarotonga Rarotonga treeskink Emoia veracunda New Guinea Sepik River, Marienberg tropical emo skink
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Emoia.
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