Emoia

Emoia is a genus of skinks, lizards in the subfamily Eugongylinae.<ref>Template:BioRef</ref> The genus Emoia belongs to a group of genera mainly from the southwestern Pacific-Australian region.

These small skinks are commonly known as emoias or skinks.

Species

List of 78 valid Emoia species and their respective authors, geographical ranges, and common names from the Reptile Database:<ref name=RDB>Template:NRDB genus</ref>

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