Subfamily
Scincinae (Typical skinks)
Plestiodon skiltonianus. Photo: (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY)
Scincinae is a subfamily of lizards. The subfamily contains 33 genera, and the genera contain a combined total of 284 species, commonly called skinks. The systematics is at times controversial. The group is probably paraphyletic. It is one of three subfamilies of the family Scincidae, the other two being Acontinae and Lygosominae.
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