Pygopus

Common scaly-foot (Pygopus lepidopodus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Pygopodidae
Genus:	Pygopus Merrem, 1820
Type species
Anguis lepidopodus Lacépède, 1804

Geographic range of the genus Pygopus in Australia

Pygopus is a genus belonging to the family of Australian legless lizards (Pygopodidae). Members of this genus are also commonly called scaly-foot.

Species

Within the genus Pygopus the following five species are recognized as being valid.^[1]^[2]

Pygopus lepidopodus (Lacépède, 1804) – common scaly-foot
Pygopus nigriceps (Fischer, 1882) – hooded scaly-foot, western scaly-foot, black-headed scaly-foot, western hooded scaly-foot
Pygopus robertsi P. Oliver, Couper & Amey, 2010^[3] – Robert's scaly-foot, Cape York scaly-foot
Pygopus schraderi Boulenger, 1913 – eastern hooded scaly-foot, eastern scaly-foot
Pygopus steelescotti James, Donnellan & Hutchinson, 2001 – northern hooded scaly-foot

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Pygopus.

References

Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. Geckonidæ, Eublepharidæ, Uroplatidæ, Pygopodidæ, Agamidæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I-XXXII. (Genus Pygopus, p. 240).
Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
Merrem B (1820). Versuchs eines Systems der Amphibien: Tentamen Systematis Amphibiorum. Marburg: J.C. Krieger. xv + 191 pp. + one plate. (Pygopus, new genus, p. 77). (in German and Latin).
Wilson, Steve; Swan, Gerry (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. ISBN 978-1921517280.

Taxon identifiers
Pygopus	Wikidata: Q581030 Wikispecies: Pygopus AFD: Pygopus CoL: 75V8 EoL: 35516 GBIF: 3238521 iNaturalist: 36962 ITIS: 818077 NCBI: 207566 Paleobiology Database: 344207 uBio: 4324717

Species

References

Further reading